The Crop Trust is an international non-profit organization dedicated to conserving and making crop diversity available for use globally, forever and for the benefit of everyone.

Resources

Here you can find downloads of all Crop Trust documents as well as press releases and links to when Crop Trust has been featured in the news.

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Crop Trust 101

Brochure with the most important information about the Crop Trust.

1 Sep 2024

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Inforgraphic: Journey of a Seed in a Genebank

17 May 2024

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2023 Annual Report & Financial Statement

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22 Apr 2024

IITA's genebank, Genetic Resources Center, houses the world’s largest collection of cowpea. Photo: Tchamba Marimagne/IITA

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Lasting Support Guaranteed for the Conservation of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Crop Diversity

7 Sep 2023

2022 Annual Report & Financial Statement

Cao Phong District, Hoa Binh, Vietnam. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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2022 Annual Report & Financial Statement

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11 May 2023

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Landmark Partnership Guarantees Long-term Support For Globally Important Collections of Beans and Forages

18 Apr 2023

New seeds are being deposited at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

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15 Years of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

15 Years of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault:

New deposit from 20 genebanks and a new virtual tour to celebrate the remote Arctic seed store

28 Feb 2023

Farmer Ahmed El Aamri of Marchouch selected Jabal as his preferred variety. Among the many traits, he appreciated one that surprised the researchers was his preference for the black awns: a trait that was also possessed by an old variety his family used to grow on the farm when he was a child, and that made the best couscous he ever tasted. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)

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New Drought-tolerant Durum Wheat Could Transform Farming in Dry Regions

A new drought-tolerant variety of durum wheat named Jabal, which means “mountain” in local Arabic, developed together by farmers and scientists in a decades-long project, has been released for cultivation in Morocco.

The new...

7 Dec 2022

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The Climate Crisis and What Crop Diversity Has to Do With It

14 Oct 2022

A genebank technician busy checking rice quality at the IRRI in he Philippines.

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Genebanks: An Introduction

14 Oct 2022

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An Endowment for the Ages

14 Oct 2022

Hands holding a variety of beans in Rwanda

Countries across the globe are receiving new support for their efforts to protect the crop diversity they will need to stave off nutritional insecurity in the future. (Photo: L.M. Salazar/Crop Trust)

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Countries Facing Food Insecurity to Benefit From a USD 2 Million “Lifeline” for Crop Diversity

As food supplies around the world are threatened by conflict, drought, and climate change, funding is being made available to bolster future food and nutrition security, by saving local varieties.

The Crop Trust is supporting...

13 Oct 2022

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in February 2022. (Photo: Shaliz Barzani/Crop Trust)

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Two Newcomers Join Svalbard Global Seed Vault for Final Opening of 2022

45,150 seed samples from 13 genebanks added to Seed Vault The Seed Vault passes the 1.2 million seed sample mark with these new deposits Iraq and Uruguay deposit seeds for the first time CIMMYT will be the largest depositor;...

12 Oct 2022

In the framework of the celebration of World Coffee Day, CATIE inaugurates an area in its La Montaña farm as the new space that will safeguard the genetic resources of coffee, reaffirming the commitment to long-term preservation for the benefit of world coffee growing. (Photo: CATIE)

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CATIE Will Now Have A New Space To Conserve Its International Coffee Collection

30 Sep 2022

United States Contributes to Fund To Protect Collections of Crop Diversity Under Imminent Threat

From left to right: Lawrent Pungulani (Malawi), Maeen Ali Ahmed Aljarmouzi (Yemen), Lise Lykke Steffensen (NordGen), Sarada Krishnan, Director of Programs, Crop Trust, Catherine Hazel M. Aguilar (Philippines) at the Ninth Session of the Governing Body in India.

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United States Contributes to Fund To Protect Collections of Crop Diversity Under Imminent Threat

NEW DELHI, India (28 September 2022) – The Government of the United States of America has announced it is making a contribution to the Emergency Reserve, a funding mechanism established jointly by the Crop Trust and the Internatio...

28 Sep 2022

Boxes with seeds entering the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on June 9th 2022. Photo credit: NordGen.

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Midnight Sun Shines on Latest Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit

19,391 seed samples from 11 genebanks will be added Largest deposit will be made by the World Vegetable Center, including seeds from Indigenous communities Spain and Lithuania depositing seeds for first time More than 1.1...

9 Jun 2022

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Crop Wild Relatives Photos

From 2011 to 2021, the Crop Wild Relatives Project brought together institutions, researchers, plant breeders, farmers and industry to collect, conserve and use the wild relatives of priority crops to help future-proof the world’s...

6 May 2022