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LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY, 22 October 2025 – Twenty genebanks representing every continent bar Antarctica deposited more than 21,000 seed samples to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week. Among them were new contributors from the...

Ecuador may be small in size, but it’s big in biodiversity. With landscapes that stretch from the Amazon to the Andes and even include the Galápagos Islands, this South American country is home to many plants and animals found...

As the world marks World Food Day on 16 October, the Crop Trust’s Power of Diversity Funding Facility highlights the results of national consultations with stakeholders to identify opportunity crops that boost nutrition,...

TIME has named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault one of the 25 most iconic inventions of the past quarter century.

“Superman had it right: if you want to keep something safe, build a mountain fortress above the Arctic Circle,” TIME...

Kazakhstan releases its first drought- and heat-tolerant variety of alfalfa, one of the world’s most important feed crops.  Developed thanks to wild relatives seeds stored in local and global genebanks, the new variety...

In this edition of our Seed Heroes series, we salute Brazilian scientist Dr Vania Azevedo, who was just tapped to lead CGIAR’s global genebanks. In her previous job, her tireless advocacy for crop diversity helped create...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) announced the launch of the Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants (GCCFP), a new international initiative to coordinate efforts to safeguard the diversity of the...