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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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.

Dagfinn Høybråten has a broad background in public service in Norway and internationally and has extensive executive and board leadership experience from complex organizations cutting across sectors,…

Carlos Furche

Mr. Carlos Furche is an agricultural engineer from the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh), he also has an MS in Sociology from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). He has an…

Cracking the Problem of Tree Seeds

Cracking the Problem of Tree Seeds World Agroforestry’s (ICRAF) genebank hosts the world’s largest holdings of agroforestry tree genetic resources but encounters several unique challenges in getting…

Kenyan Farmers Welcome “Exotic” Sorghum

Kenyan Farmers Welcome “Exotic” Sorghum ICSWC 14RS 00020-3-47-1:201704 may be a mouthful, but to Kenyan farmers it could spell food security and better livelihood.

Farmer group in Kenya looking at sorghum

Crop Conservation Strategies

Thanks to support from the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the Crop Trust and its partners have been working to update five existing global crop conservation strategies and…

Jabal Durum Wheat Variety

After years of hard work, a new drought-tolerant variety of durum wheat developed by plant breeders and genebank staff at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas…

Crop Strategy: Pea 2023 (lowres)

Crop Strategy: Pea 2023 (lowres) GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR THE CONSERVATION AND USE OF PEA GENETIC RESOURCES The International Treaty ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE …

What is Being Saved in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault?

GLF Live with Åsmund Asdal

Eggplant_Crop_Trust_2023.pdf

EGGpLANT A Beloved Big Berry with r o v a l F l a b o l G The eggplant, also called Solanum melongena, is native to Southeast Asia, but is grown around the world. It’s especially popular in Asia…

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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.