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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Finance and investments

It was a challenging year for investment markets due to geopolitical turmoil, rising interest rates and inflationary pressures. However, the Crop Diversity Endowment Fund was set up with a long-term…

No data? No conservation.

Information systems are central to the effective conservation and use of plant genetic resources, whether at the level of the individual collection, using the likes of GRIN-Global, or at a global…

Banking on African heritage

Seeds for Resilience is a five-year project supporting collections of key crops identified by partner genebanks in five sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. In…

Our work

The need to conserve crop diversity within a rational, efficient global system has been recognized in various international agreements

Capsicum

The Crop Trust, along with its strategic partners, is developing conservation strategies to protect the genetic diversity of the world’s food crops. This initiative is funded by the German Federal…

Spicing Up Diets and Livelihoods with Peppers

Spicing Up Diets and Livelihoods with Peppers What behaves like a chameleon, comes in 50 shades of red, green, orange, yellow and even purple, and gets sweeter with age? It may sound like a…

Five Recipes to Make in Celebration of Sustainable Gastronomy Day

Five Recipes to Make in Celebration of Sustainable Gastronomy Day On Sustainable Gastronomy Day, the Crop Trust has linked up with its partners from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT…

Safeguarding Ethiopian Wheat and Other Centuries-old Landraces in Svalbard

Safeguarding Ethiopian Wheat and Other Centuries-old Landraces in Svalbard Last week, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) deposited seeds of traditional…

Strengthening the Inclusion of Marginalized Groups in Ex Situ Conservation of Crop Diversity

Strengthening the Inclusion of Marginalized Groups in Ex Situ Conservation of Crop Diversity Farmers have selected, exchanged and conserved crop diversity for millennia, and continue to do so,…

Not Just K-crops on Korean Dinner Tables

Not Just K-crops on Korean Dinner Tables Just as the colorful mosaic of banchan dishes enhances a dinner table, Korean – and global – food security is enhanced by crop diversity. Dishes such as…

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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.