Friends of Global Crop Diversity Ltd

Over the next decade, the world’s population is expected to increase by nearly one billion, reaching 8 billion people. By 2050, it may pass 9 billion. Conservative estimates suggest an increase in global food demand over the same period of at least 50%. Feeding our growing global population is not optional, however hard. Global food production faces unprecedented challenges due to rising temperatures, more severe floods and droughts, and new pests and plant diseases. Crop diversity is essential to adapting agriculture to these coming challenges.

The Crop Trust works with partners across the globe to conserve and make crop diversity available for the advancement of agriculture.