Safeguarding Crop Diversity, Forever
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.
Our Vision
To ensure the conservation and availability of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in perpetuity, with a view to achieving sustainable agriculture and global food and nutrition security.
Our Mission
We support collections of unique and valuable plant genetic resources for food and agriculture held in genebanks.
We promote an economically efficient, goal-oriented and sustainable global system of genebanks, in accordance with the Plant Treaty.
We promote the regeneration, characterization, documentation and evaluation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the exchange of related information.
We promote the availability of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
We promote national and regional capacity building for genebank personnel with respect to the above.
Why We Need Crop Diversity
Crop diversity is essential for life on Earth. It underpins nearly everything we eat and drink. But it’s rapidly disappearing.
Building a Global Genebank Partnership
Strengthening a rational, efficient and effective global system of ex situ crop diversity conservation.