Agriculture depends on relatively few crops – only about 150 are cultivated on any significant scale worldwide – however, each comes in a vast range of different forms.
Crop diversity is the building block on which adaptive and productive agriculture depends. The sole organization working to preserve and conserve crop diversity worldwide is the Global Crop Diversity Trust.
The Crop Trust provides:
Financial support for the key international genebanks that make the diversity of our most important food crops available to all under the International Treaty;
Tools and support for the efficient management of genebanks;
Coordination between conserving institutions to ensure that all crop diversity is protected, accessible, and used.
Final backup of crop seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
