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Crop Trust is about the Crop Trust, the international organisation in Bonn that funds gene banks: its founding, the Genesys portal it manages, its part in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, its endowment, its tie to the Plant Treaty and where Cannabis appears in that work.

Sourcing

The Crop Trust's history, finances, programmes and its account of the seed vault come from its own pages. They are the organisation's account of itself. The Cannabis counts come from the Genesys portal and from the Nordic Genetic Resource Center's published list of vault deposits, each with the date of the search. Discuss attribution, independent sourcing and any claim that has lost its attribution here.

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Two counts of Cannabis at Svalbard

On 13 November 2026, 62 of the current Cannabis accessions in Genesys had a safety duplicate in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The same day, the Nordic Genetic Resource Center's list of the vault's deposits, published through GBIF, held 69 Cannabis samples from six gene banks: 53 from the Leibniz Institute at Gatersleben, four each from Austria and the Czech Republic, three each from Latvia and Sweden and two from Poland. Genesys counts the accessions of the gene banks that publish to it; the deposit list counts the samples in the vault.

Cannabis in the Crop Trust's programmes

The Crop Trust's own pages name no programme, grant or collection for cannabis or hemp. The plant appears in its work through the gene banks that publish their data to Genesys and deposit seed at Svalbard. The Cannabis accessions in Genesys belong to those gene banks, not to the Crop Trust.

Name

The Establishment Agreement and the Constitution are those of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. The organisation calls itself the Crop Trust.

Endowment figures

The market value of the Crop Diversity Endowment Fund is dated 30 June 2026. The target of USD 850 million and the yearly need of about USD 34 million are the Crop Trust's own estimates.