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Brochure with the most important information about the Crop Trust.

Crop Trust’s Annual Report 2023 provides milestones and highlights from our work during 2023.

Learn about Crop Trust's work, impact and results in our 2022 Annual Report and Financial Statement.

The climate crisis is all around us. Unprecedented heatwaves. Rivers that “ought” to flood once a century now burst their banks every couple of years.

Genebanks store genes. Not literally, although there are some specialized genebanks that do manage genes – the actual bits of DNA that give living things their distinct characteristics.

Crop diversity is under threat. Changes in land use, extreme weather...

Learn about Crop Trust's work, impact and results in our 2021 Annual Report and Financial Statement.

Learn about Crop Trust's work, impact and results in our 2020 Annual Report and Financial Statement.

20,443 seed samples from 10 genebanks to be deposited Largest deposit being made by ICARDA genebank, which withdrew seeds in 2015 during the Syrian civil war More than 1.1 million seed samples of nearly 6,000 plant species...

BONN, Germany (4 June 2020) – The Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) has announced today the organization will sign the Global Landscapes Forum charter, becoming its 29th member. The Crop Trust joins a global community of...

The European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) and the Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) welcome the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding for enhanced cooperation on 26 February 2020 at the...

Learn about Crop Trust's work, impact and results in our 2019 Annual Report and Financial Statement.

Bonn, Germany (12th November 2019) – The Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) announced today the appointment of Dr. Stefan Schmitz as its next Executive Director. Dr. Schmitz will take up his position in early 2020,...

­­21 October 2019, SVALBARD, NORWAY – Having made the trek from Europe and Africa to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, approximately 30,000 seed samples have a new home.

Today, they join nearly one million others in the...

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A Sensory Journey of Our Food Crops

BONN, Germany, September 2018 – Today, the Crop Trust launches the second phase of #CropsInColor, an image-led storytelling campaign that celebrates crop diversity around the world.

Phase II,...

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Seven scientists received an inaugural Legacy Award for dedicating their careers to crop conservation

SVALBARD, NORWAY (25 February 2018) -- As part of the 10th anniversary of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the Crop Trust...

SVALBARD, NORWAY (13 September 2017) – Last week, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) deposited more than 7,500 seed samples for safekeeping in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. At the same...