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.

We seek professionals with a passion for global food security and a strong drive to contribute to our mission of conserving crop diversity for future generations.

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The Crop Trust Expands its #CropsInColor Palette

The Crop Trust Expands its #CropsInColor Palette A Sensory Journey of Our Food Crops BONN, Germany, September 2018 – Today, the Crop Trust launches the second phase of #CropsInColor, an image-led…

A farmer of the Thái ethnic group carries tree seedlings to be planted between fields of cassava in Sơn La Province. The many minority groups of this remote and mountainous region practice diverse farming systems that often include cassava as a key part. The popular varieties, bred for the region, grow relatively low and dense as they efficiently use sunlight to produce their starchy edible roots under the soil.

The Crop Trust and IRRI renew their commitment to safeguarding rice diversity in perpetuity

The Crop Trust and IRRI renew their commitment to safeguarding rice diversity in perpetuity Berlin, Germany, 15 November 2023 - The Crop Trust and the International Rice Research Institute…

The Crop Trust Aims High With 2030 Strategy Plan for Genebanks

The Crop Trust Aims High With 2030 Strategy Plan for Genebanks “You’ve got to think about doing big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right…

The Cows Come Home

The Cows Come Home Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs Cows get a lot of bad press these days. They are blamed for climate change and deforestation and even unhealthy diets, as if it’s…

The Cows Come Home

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

The Constitution of the Crop Trust

The Climate Crisis and What Crop Diversity Has to Do With It

The climate crisis is all around us. Unprecedented heatwaves. Rivers that “ought” to flood once a century now burst their banks every couple of years.

The Chef Keeping Appalachian Food for Appalachians

The Chef Keeping Appalachian Food for Appalachians Emily Payne | Food Tank “Comfort food is for cowards, that ain’t what we do here,” Chef Marion Ohlinger tells Food Tank. A 12th-generation West…

The CGIAR Genebank Platform

2017-2021 The 11 CGIAR genebanks safeguard a unique global resource of crop and tree diversity and respond to thousands of requests for this diversity every year from users in more than 100…

The Breeding Advantage

The Breeding Advantage Tapping into genetic diversity for food security in a 4 degrees warmer world Lili Szilagyi, CCAFS and Cierra Martin, Crop Trust While efforts are underway to mitigate…

CIP’s Genebank staff visually inspect cultures of the global, in trust potato in vitro collection following standard indicators for verifying viability.

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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.