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| Founded | 2004 |
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| Type | Non-profit NGO |
| Focus | agricultural biodiversity, conservation, food security, genebanks |
| Headquarters | Bonn, Germany |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Stefan Schmitz (Executive Director), Catherine Bertini (Chair of the Executive Board) |
| Website | croptrust.org |
The Crop Trust, officially known as the Global Crop Diversity Trust, is an international nonprofit organization with a secretariat in Bonn, Germany. Its mission is to conserve and make available the world's crop diversity for food security.[1]
Established in 2004, the Crop Trust is the only organization whose sole mission is to safeguard the world’s crop diversity for future food security.[2] Through an endowment fund for crop diversity, the Crop Trust provides financial support for key international and national genebanks that hold collections of diversity for food crops available under the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).[3] The organization also provides tools and support for the efficient management of genebanks, facilitates coordination between conserving institutions, and organizes final backup of crop seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Since its establishment, the Crop Trust has raised more than USD 300 million for the Crop Diversity Endowment Fund and supports conservation work in over 80 countries.[4]
- ^ "Crop Trust to conserve plant diversity". www.fao.org. Archived from the original on 2019-08-12. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
- ^ "The Global Crop Diversity Trust". Food Planet Prize. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ^ "Agreement for the Establishment of the Global Crop Diversity Trust" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2012-11-17.
- ^ "The Crop Trust Raises $300m of $850m Target to Safeguard Global Biodiversity - AgFunderNews". AgFunderNews. 2016-05-17. Retrieved 2017-02-26.