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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Flourishing in her Field

Flourishing in her Field Eyerusalem Arusi Morka shows what can be achieved when women have the opportunity to develop their talents. In honor of International Women’s Day, which celebrates the…

Women working at the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute clearing a regeneration plot of fenugreek. The Ethiopian genebank is part of the Seeds4Resilience Project. Photo: Nora Castaneda-Alvarez/Crop Trust

Fonio: Small Grain, Big Opportunity

Food For a Curious Mind: Damaris Odeny on a Career in Agricultural Science

Food For a Curious Mind: Damaris Odeny on a Career in Agricultural Science This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with…

Food Forever Experiences

Event Series Biodiversity for Resilience By working with innovative chefs to cook up delicious dishes using lesser known ingredients, we aim to plant the seed for a more diverse,…

Food Forever Initiative

The Food Forever Initiative was a campaign to support Target 2.5 of the UN SDGs by raising awareness around crop and livestock diversity and its importance to a sustainable food future.

Food Forever: 2030 Strategic Plan

Food Forever: 2030 Strategic Plan The Crop Trust has a clear vision: a world in which crop diversity is permanently conserved and made available in support of sustainable, resilient and healthy…

Woman sells different crops at the market

Food Prices and Security Hit by ‘Heatflation’ as Summer Heat Wave Ravages Crops Worldwide

Food Prices and Security Hit by ‘Heatflation’ as Summer Heat Wave Ravages Crops Worldwide Record-breaking heat waves across the globe are destroying crops, pushing up food prices and putting the…

Food Prices Are on the Rise – And the Global South Will Be Hit Hardest

By Stefan Schmitz, published in the Independent

With the harvest in progress outside of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, a threshing team uses flat rocks to knock rice grains from freshly cut plants. Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, holds 2.4 million farms. At harvest time, the rhythm of rice threshing can be heard on most of them. While the country is most famous for exotic products like vanilla and cloves, 85% of Malagasy farmers grow rice.

Food Security and Biodiversity Conservation: Tim Fischer’s Contribution and the Ongoing Challenges

Food Security and Biodiversity Conservation: Tim Fischer’s Contribution and the Ongoing Challenges Join us for a webinar hosted by the Crop Trust and Crawford Fund as we pay tribute to the late Hon…

Food Security and Germplasm Conservation Bring Crop Trust and CATIE Together

Food Security and Germplasm Conservation Bring Crop Trust and CATIE Together Food security and the development of a strategy to conserve germplasm of great importance for Mesoamerican agriculture is…

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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.