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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Quality Matters

Quality Matters Marie Haga | Marie's Corner The job of the Crop Trust is to safeguard one of the world’s most important natural resources – namely plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.…

Quality at the Heart of Crop Diversity Conservation

Quality at the Heart of Crop Diversity Conservation Every seed in a genebank is on a journey. The journey starts when the seed is collected in the field, continues through various stages of…

Genebanks, the living libraries of crop diversity, benefit from following a Quality Management System, or QMS. This ensures that nothing goes wrong in the journey of a seed into, around, and out of the genebank. In this image, staff of the Genetics, Biotechnology and Seed Science (GBioS) unit at the University d’Abomey-Calavi in Benin inspects seeds conserved in a freezer. Photo: Neil Palmer/Crop Trust

QMS: Building Capacity for Conservation

In 2022, no fewer than 30 genebanks from 28 countries deposited a total of nearly 85,000 seed samples in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Q&A with Toby Smith: Four Questions and Four Images

Q&A with Toby Smith: Four Questions and Four Images Luis Salazar | Communications Manager Photographer Toby Smith recently visited southern Africa for the Crop Trust’s #CropsInColor campaign. From…

Q&A with Tim Schilling, World Coffee Research

Q&A with Tim Schilling, World Coffee Research Interview: LM Salazar | Crop Trust As we prepare for our next #CropsInColor trip, which will take us to Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador to explore the…

Q&A with AfricaRice Genebank Manager

Q&A with AfricaRice Genebank Manager Following the recent AfricaRice deposit of 2,400 rice accessions to Svalbard, the Crop Trust sat down with Dr. Marie-Noëlle Ndjiondjop, Head of Genetic…

Putting the Global Crop Conservation Strategies into Action

Between 2004 and 2019, the Crop Trust facilitated the development of 26 global crop conservation strategies by experts around the world. But to stay relevant, these strategies need to be regularly…

Pumpkin: Hiding in Plain Sight

Published Global Crop Conservation Strategies

This list includes documents developed/or facilitated by several organizations. The strategies are listed in alphabetical order. Crop Year of publication …

Protecting Your Pumpkin from Climate Change

Protecting Your Pumpkin from Climate Change 'Curcurbits' isn't really a term we use around the dinner table ... but we sure love to eat them. Pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, watermelons, musk melons,…

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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.