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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.

In 2022, the Crop Trust refreshed its brand with an updated color palette and a new logo.

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...

In this deposit, 14,011 seed samples are being added from 12 genebanks from around the world. Latvia and Serbia are depositing seeds for the first time. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) remains the...

BONN, Germany (2 September, 2021) -- The Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) and the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) strengthened their partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conserve and make...

BONN, Germany (8 June 2021) – Germany and the Crop Trust are expanding their cooperation to help safeguard global crop diversity in perpetuity. In addition to the funding provided to the Crop Trust for the long-term support of...

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...

EUR 20 million project to boost genebanks’ efforts to conserve and share samples of key staple crops will drive climate resilient and diversified food production.

Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are facing the combined challenges...

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...

Seeds from Royal Estate go to Kew and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Effort to Tackle Global Food Security

Hand-picked from the Wildflower meadow at Highgrove, the seeds represent plants that are disappearing from the UK...

SVALBARD (25 February, 2020) - Today, 35 genebanks from all continents deposited seeds at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, at a deposit event hosted by Norwegian Prime Minister and co-chair of the UN group of SDG Advocates, Erna...

Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food

Bonn, Germany and Washington, DC (3 DECEMBER 2019)—As the world grapples with the challenge of sustainably...

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