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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African Genebanks Build a Community

African Genebanks Build a Community Conserving crop diversity is not just about adventurous activities like trekking through the jungle on elephant-back to track down the “lost” wild relatives of…

National Plant Genetic Resources Centre (NPGRC)

10th Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

10th Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture The Tenth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant…

19th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

19th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture The 19th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will be held at…

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Partnerships and organizational news

The Crop Trust made a number of important institutional strides forward in 2022, including: receiving an endowment contribution from a private company; signing of a memorandum of understanding with…

Reflecting on 2022

Reflecting on 2022 Visit the 2022 Annual Report website At the beginning of 2022, many of us expected this to be a year when life began to return to normal after the ravages of the COVID-19…

Securing the world’s crop diversity is a prerequisite for future food and nutrition security. Photo: Shawn Landersz/Crop Trust

Global Crop Diversity Summit 2023

Empowering Seed Banks to Combat the Climate, Biodiversity and Food Crises

A guiding light for global crop conservation

Global Crop Conservation Strategies guide global conservation of genetic resources for key crops. In 2022, five new strategies and two updated strategies were completed and three others were in the…

Laying the foundations for better grasspea and finger millet

In 2022, the “Safeguarding crop diversity for food security: Pre-breeding complemented with Innovative Finance” Project entered its fourth and final year.

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A chill solution for tomorrow’s sweetpotatoes

A new project is preserving sweetpotato landraces from Madagascar and Zambia, cleaning them of diseases so they can yield better, and putting them back into the hands of farmers.

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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.