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A vault built on an Arctic island to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes received new deposits on Wednesday - including for the first time from Iraq and Uruguay.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault...

As food supplies around the world are threatened by conflict, drought, and climate change, funding is being made available to bolster future food and nutrition security, by saving local varieties.

The Crop Trust is supporting...

At the last opening of the year, tightly packed seed packets from Iraq and Uruguay join more than 45,000 seed samples of crops from across the globe to be deposited deep inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. 

A vault built on an...

45,150 seed samples from 13 genebanks added to Seed Vault The Seed Vault passes the 1.2 million seed sample mark with these new deposits Iraq and Uruguay deposit seeds for the first time CIMMYT will be the largest depositor;...

Two research studies conducted as part of the Crop Trust’s Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) Project have won awards for excellence after appearing in a special issue of the U.S. journal Crop Science last year.

The bimonthly flagship...

1. Global crop diversity is a prerequisite for future food and nutrition security, enabling us to adapt agriculture to the climate crisis, improve livelihoods and feed everyone adequately

“Diversity in the gene pools of crops,...

The Crop Trust highlighted the role of seeds in providing actionable solutions to the challenges facing the world’s food systems at a curtain-raising event held in Bonn, Germany, on 27 September. 

Crop Diversity Day kicked off...