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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Learn about crop diversity on the go. We collaborated with the Chef's Manifesto to bring a season of their podcast dedicated to the stories of six important crops. Each episode takes you on a…

Pledging Conference Summary

Pledging Conference Summary Marie Haga | Marie's Corner The Pledging Conference has taken us one step closer to our final goal: assuring the world safeguards and has access to the crop diversity we…

Plants in Print

Plants in Print It’s not very often that books with state-of-the art information on plant genetic resources come out, so when one does, it’s worth celebrating, and not just because I happen to have…

ICARDA Terbol Station in Beqaa Valley, Lebanon

Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework

Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) constitute an integral component of agricultural biodiversity. PGRFA are crucial for sustainable agricultural production, adaptation to…

Plant Cryopreservation: Principles, Applications and Challenges of Banking Plant Diversity at Ultralow Temperatures

10 July 2025 - 15.00 - 16.00 CEST

Plant Collection Policy Overview

This course provides an introduction to plant collection policy for botanic curators/collection managers/data managers, who are interested in an introduction to plant collection policy and how this…

Planet Wheat

Planet Wheat Every year farmers grow around $150 billion worth of wheat, providing 23% of the calories we live on. But some years it all goes wrong. 2010 was a bad year for wheat: a heat wave in…

Plan for Bigger, Better Yams

Plan for Bigger, Better Yams Yields of yams could be boosted—and with them food security—by using their biodiversity more efficiently, according to a strategy for yam conservation facilitated by the…

Man standing and talking in front of yam crop.

Plan B for Backup: Sweetpotato Seeds Go to Svalbard

Plan B for Backup: Sweetpotato Seeds Go to Svalbard There’s a sweetpotato variety in Papua New Guinea called “Gimane.” But farmers prefer to call it “I don’t care.” Gimane earned this name because…

Pigeonpea: Food for Drought

Pigeonpea: Food for Drought Drought is a terrifying prospect for all farmers, and a matter of life and death for many. A nutritious legume that can produce harvests with just 65 cm of rain a year,…

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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.