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Four out of every 10 Nigerian cowpea farmers surveyed are growing an improved cowpea variety that can link its ancestry back to a genebank The use of improved varieties has not diminished the diversity...

Buried in Arctic permafrost, the collection safeguards the world’s crop species – and is a magnet for conspiracy theories. Now the public can take a look around.

LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A 'doomsday' Arctic seed vault on Norway's Spitsbergen island is set to receive its most diverse batch of seed donations yet as efforts to secure the world's food supplies ramp up amid rising climate...

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...