In the Media

The University of Okayama in Japan and Seed Savers Exchange in the United States recently deposited samples of some of the world's most celebrated crops including barley, carrot, tomato, and other vegetables into the Svalbard...

The fight to achieve food security and end hunger is one of the greatest challenges facing the world in the coming decades. Rising populations, diminishing resources and deteriorating environment only raise the stakes.

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As climate change makes crop diversity even more important, gene banks struggle to stay afloat. Freelance science journalist Virginia Gewin reports in Ensia, a magazine showcasing environmental solutions in action.

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Efforts to preserve and protect plant information are accelerating — but not without risks, reports Claire Provost in SciDev.Net.

As an increasingly bloody civil war raged around them, a team of scientists in the Syrian capital...

Lizzie Wade reports in Wired Magazine: when civil war erupted in Syria, Ahmed Amri, the genebank manager at the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), immediately thought about seeds. 

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The importance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the work of the Crop Trust in Le Figaro, one of France's biggest newspapers. Story by Marielle Court.

Le projet de centraliser sur l'île de Svalbard la conservation de toutes...

Marie Haga wrote an opinion article fot the web portal Europolitics on the necessity for the European Commission and the EU member states to support and contribute to the conservation of crop diversity.

The European Union has...

Crop Trust Board member, and President of EMBRAPA, Mauricio Antonio Lopes, Ph.D., contributes to the ASM publication with an article entitled: 'Agricultural Biodiversity and Global Food Security'.

The Russian botanist,...

BBC's Mark Kinver reports on the recent deposit of forest tree seeds and more to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

The Svalbard "doomsday" vault - widely known for protecting global food crop seeds - has accepted its first delivery...