In 2023, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault marked its 15th anniversary with notable deposits, and also ‘opened’ its doors to the world by launching a new virtual tour. The Seed Vault was first…
On the long road of conservation of crop diversity, emergencies occasionally arise, and it is then important to provide rapid assistance to genebanks facing the risk of losing their collections…
On 14 November 2023, under the patronage of the German Federal President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Crop Trust and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture…
The Crop Trust has a clear vision: a world in which crop diversity is permanently conserved and made available in support of sustainable, resilient and healthy agrifood systems. Achieving this…
How does the Crop Trust support genebanks around the world? Learn more The Crop Trust was launched in 2004 to conserve and make crop diversity available for use, forever and for the…
Global Crop Conservation Strategies guide global conservation of genetic resources for key crops. In 2022, five new strategies and two updated strategies were completed and three others were in the…
The Crop Trust continues to work on initiatives to deepen its network of government donors and establish partnerships with the private sector, NGOs and multilateral development institutions, both in…
Launched in September 2021, Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) is a 10-year project, that builds on the successes and achievements of the Crop Wild Relatives Project…
In 2022, the “Safeguarding crop diversity for food security: Pre-breeding complemented with Innovative Finance” Project entered its fourth and final year.