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 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…

International Workshop on Pre-Breeding

International Workshop on Pre-Breeding International workshop on the promotion of Public-Private Partnerships for Pre-Breeding 2-4 February 2015 Agropolis, Montpellier, France Introduction The role…

Interview with Nikolay Dzubenko, Director of VIR

Interview with Nikolay Dzubenko, Director of VIR To celebrate the 130th anniversary of Vavilov, I interviewed Nikolay Dzubenko, Director of the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources…

Introducing The Food Forever Initiative

Introducing The Food Forever Initiative The Crop Trust initiated and supports the Food Forever Initiative (FFI), a global partnership which seeks to raise awareness for the importance and urgency of…

Introducing the New Rhodes College Fellow

Introducing the New Rhodes College Fellow Maya Searle, a senior health equity major from Knoxville, TN, has been awarded The Steve and Riea Lainoff Crop Trust Fellowship in Honor of Cary Fowler ’71.…

Iraq and Uruguay Deposit Crop Seeds at Arctic Doomsday Vault

Iraq and Uruguay Deposit Crop Seeds at Arctic Doomsday Vault At the last opening of the year, tightly packed seed packets from Iraq and Uruguay join more than 45,000 seed samples of crops from…

NordGen staff carry more than 45,000 seed samples from 14 different genebanks into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault at the October 2022 deposit. (Photo: NordGen)

Irish Aid Pledges Euro 3 Million on World Food Day

Irish Aid Pledges Euro 3 Million on World Food Day Dublin, Ireland (16 October 2006): Today is World Food Day. Despite progress achieved in agriculture and rural development, 850 million people in…

IRRI Launches New IRG Collection to Accelerate Linking Trait Discovery with Breeding

IRRI Launches New IRG Collection to Accelerate Linking Trait Discovery with Breeding The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has introduced a new Released Variety Panel (RVP), a collection…

Is a Pandemic the Time to Think About Genebanks?

Is a Pandemic the Time to Think About Genebanks? Reasons to consider seeds in the time of the coronavirus By Luigi Guarino, Director or Science and Charlotte Lusty, Head of Programs and…

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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.