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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International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT, is a non-profit research and training organization with more than 400 partners in over 100 countries. …

International Potato Center (CIP)

The International Potato Center, known by its Spanish acronym CIP, was founded in 1971 as a root and tuber research-for-development institution to deliver sustainable solutions to the pressing world…

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is a non-profit independent rice research and training organization. The genebank at IRRI has the largest collection of rice in the world. Mission…

Secretariat of the Pacific Community Center for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT)

Crop diversity remains the key to meeting future food needs. Yet these resources are disappearing and diversity in the Pacific has been no exception to this trend. Mission The mission of CePaCT is…

World Agroforestry Center

Trees play a crucial role in almost all terrestrial ecosystems and provide a range of products and services to rural and urban people. As natural vegetation is cleared for agriculture and other…

Stefan Schmitz

Stefan Schmitz joined the Crop Trust as Executive Director in January 2020. He previously worked as Deputy Director-General and Commissioner for the “One World – No Hunger” Initiative at the German…

Global_Strategy_Tea-1.pdf

A GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR THE CONSERVATION AND USE OF TEA GENETIC RESOURCES Paula J. Bramel and Liang Chen ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The development of this strategy would not have been possible without the…

TEA_STRATEGY_SUMMARY.pdf

TEA GENETIC RESOURCES: A GLOBAL STRATEGY The cultivation of tea has spread rapidly and continually since the nineteenth century, from China and Southeast Asia to diverse habitats around the planet.…

Crop-Trust-BOLD-Project-One-pager.pdf

BOLD Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development In Los Baños, Philippines, an IRRI researcher takes notes on a trial of rice plants’ response to rainfall. Photo: Brent…

Crop-Trust-BOLD-Project-Four-pager.pdf

BOLD Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development Harnessing Crop Diversity to Adapt to the Effects of the Climate Crisis Funded by the Government of Norway, led by the Global Crop…

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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.