The Crop Trust is a non-profit international organization dedicated to conserving crop diversity and making it available for use globally, forever, for the benefit of everyone.

We work with donors and partners to lead global projects that protect crop diversity, conserve crop wild relatives and develop technology to make this diversity accessible worldwide.

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Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet

Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet The world’s farmers urgently need new crop varieties that are resilient to such results of climate change as droughts and outbreaks of new…

Wild eggplant. Photo: Luis Salazar/Crop Trust

Wild Grapes Help Vineyards Face the Future

Wild Grapes Help Vineyards Face the Future Wild grapes have been saving vineyards for hundreds of years. Now, as climate change, new pests and diseases, and changing markets place new challenges on…

Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops

Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food. Bonn,…

INIA- Capacity Building Course in Chile.

Wild Potatoes Offer New Options for East African Farmers

Wild Potatoes Offer New Options for East African Farmers Potatoes are Kenya’s second most important staple after maize, supporting 3.3 million jobs and contributing around USD 324 million to the…

Wild Relatives: Not Just in Your Family

Wild Relatives: Not Just in Your Family Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Most of us have some wild relatives in our families. I can think of some in my own. It’s the same with crops – they too have their…

Wild Sorghum Offers Toolbox for Climate-Proofing Future Crops

Wild Sorghum Offers Toolbox for Climate-Proofing Future Crops Harnessing useful traits found in the weedy distant cousins (“wild relatives”) of domesticated crops to develop more climate-resilient…

Wired: Genebank Saved From Syrian Civil War

Wired: Genebank Saved From Syrian Civil War Lizzie Wade reports in Wired Magazine: when civil war erupted in Syria, Ahmed Amri, the genebank manager at the International Center…

THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN DRY AREAS HAS A GENEBANK THAT PROTECTS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ANCIENT SEEDS, INCLUDING MANY VARIETIES OF WHEAT AND DURUM. ICARDA

Wired: Svalbard's Icy Vault Welcomes First Tree Seeds

Wired: Svalbard's Icy Vault Welcomes First Tree Seeds Wired.co.uk reports on the deposit of tree seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in February 2015. The Global Seed Vault on the island of…

Women and Girls in Science

Fulfilling the Crop Trust’s mission to ensure the conservation of the world’s crop diversity would not be possible without the vital work of dedicated scientists around the world. An increasing…

Women Hold the Key to Unlocking the Potential of Opportunity Crops

Women Hold the Key to Unlocking the Potential of Opportunity Crops What if one of the greatest opportunities to strengthen food security was already in farmers' fields – and in the knowledge passed…

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The Crop Diversity Digest

From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.