In the Media

STOCKHOLM — Chickpeas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an Arctic seed vault built to protect food crops from wars and natural disasters, officials...

Terra Mundo in Spain reports on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Los garbanzos, las habas y otras semillas de un centro agrícola sirio se encuentran entre las 25.000 muestras nuevas depositadas esta semana en una bóveda construida...

The Memphis Flyer in Memphis, TN reports on Cary Fowler and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

It is 4,059 miles from Memphis, Tennessee, to the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic. Svalbard is the northernmost European settlement...

Spiegel Online reports on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in August 2011.

Überall auf der Welt schwindet die Vielfalt der Nutzpflanzensorten in hohem Tempo. Weltweit, sagen Experten, haben wir im Laufe der vergangenen hundert...

BBC Mundo reports on the recent grant by the Crop Trust to save the collection at CATIE.

Variedades únicas de café, tomate, chile, frijol, maíz y otros cultivos, que se conservaban en bancos de semillas de América Latina,...

Scientists have announced a plan to collect and store the wild plant relatives of essential food crops, including wheat, rice, and potatoes.

The project, co-ordinated by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, will collect and...

SciDev reports on the Crop Trust's agreement with the Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees to conserve unique crop varieties.

[MANILA] The giant swamp taro, the orange-fleshed Fe'i banana and a coconut that grows to half a metre in...