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Crop Trust
Our mission is to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide.
About Crop Trust
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. The fight to achieve food security and end hunger is one of the most defining issues of our times. Agriculture feeds our world, both people and the livestock that we raise. Yet, agriculture is under threat. Rising populations, diminishing resources and deteriorating environments are all raising the stakes. We will need 50% more food on the table by 2050, and producing this food has never been more challenging. Within the plant diversity, we can find the characteristics that will adapt and improve our food crops and allow farmers to feed the world – come what may. But this diversity is not endless. It is disappearing, and once lost, it’s lost forever. Conserving and making this diversity available in genebanks worldwide ensures a food supply at more stable prices and provides the raw material breeders and farmers will need to grow a more nutritious, affordable and varied food supply. This is the Crop Trust’s mission.
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Partnerships
Crop Trust, ICARDA, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, and the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Maroc) developed three new durum wheat varieties in parts of Morocco to combine drought resilience with grain quality, yield, and straw production.
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Presence & Recognition
Crop Trust is attending Dryland Congress 2026 to bring together early and mid-career scientists and experts to explore crop diversity conservation and food systems.
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Presence & Recognition
Crop Trust is hosting a side event about career pathways in crop diversity conservation at the Drylands Congress in Delhi.
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Research & Knowledge
Crop Trust's BOLD Project is helping researchers from Can Tho University develop new rice varieties by combining traits from wild rice with traditional Vietnamese varieties.
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Research & Knowledge
Crop Trust researchers identified rice varieties with improved tolerance to salt, bacterial blight, and blast disease, while two new varieties are now approved for cultivation.
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Research & Knowledge
Crop Trust researchers alongside the BOLD Project provided hundreds of farmers with training to ensure new rice varieties reach the fields.
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Presence & Recognition
Crop Trust supported presentations on climate-resilient durum wheat and barley research by Anna Backhaus from IPK Leibniz-Institut and Imane Lafraoui from ICARDA
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Presence & Recognition
Crop Trust joined the German Plant Breeding Conference 2026 at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg as a conference sponsor
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Presence & Recognition
Crop Trust highlighted how crop diversity conserved in genebanks can be transformed into practical breeding solutions that reach farmers' fields worldwide
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Presence & Recognition
Crop Trust hosted a session at AFS2026 co-hosted with the African Union-DARBE, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland, focusing on crop diversity and international partnerships.
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Research & Knowledge
Crop Trust published a new policy brief supported by the Power of Diversity Funding Facility exploring gender-responsive approaches to unlocking the full potential of opportunity crops for nutrition, resilience, and livelihoods.
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