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Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 28 February 2023 – As part of its 15th anniversary celebrations, today the Svalbard Global Seed Vault welcomes 20 genebank depositors. 19,585 seed samples will enter the Seed Vault, including collections...

15 Years of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault:

New deposit from 20 genebanks and a new virtual tour to celebrate the remote Arctic seed store

You know how some superheroes work silently and selflessly behind the scenes to save the world from an unseen threat?

Genebank staff are a bit like that.

They operate largely outside the public eye; in the shadows, you might...

As the global climate crisis continues to wreak havoc on our food systems, there can be no better argument that we need bold and proactive measures to protect agriculture. Rapid changes in temperature and rainfall patterns can...

Researchers from the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) have joined forces with the Crop Trust in a three-year effort to use wild relatives of alfalfa (Medicago sativa) to improve alfalfa varieties...

The wild, weedy relatives of our cultivated crops display all kinds of useful traits their domesticated cousins lack – traits that could make our agriculture more resilient to future challenges.

But it takes a lot of time and...

The peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), also known as groundnut, is native to South America but is now grown throughout the tropics and subtropics. There, this delicious legume is a subsistence crop for many, as well as an important...

This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating the importance of crop diversity with a series of cards you can print and give to your loved ones. Scroll to the bottom of this post to download them.