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Artists For Plants and Svalbard Global Seed Vault Launch "Seeds Planting Art" International Call
The 2022 Artists For Plants international call is focused on artworks dedicated to seeds.
23 Jun 2022
Support for National Genebanks Underway
Seeds maintained in genebanks worldwide are the foundation of our future food and nutrition security.
16 Jun 2022
Sir Peter Crane's Reflections on the Last Year
After three years as Chair of the Executive Board of the Crop Trust, Sir Peter Crane is retiring and Catherine Bertini, a World Food Prize Laureate, will assume leadership. In his final letter in the Crop Trust annual report,...
14 Jun 2022
The Race Against Time To Breed a Wheat To Survive the Climate Crisis
Scientists are testing forgotten wheat varieties from across the world to find those with heat- and drought-tolerant traits.
12 Jun 2022
Svalbard Global Seed Vault Seed Collection Continues to Blossom
Two genebanks joined the growing number of depositors to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week and varieties of rice bean, lablab and yard-long bean from an Indigenous community were safely backed up for the first time.
In...
10 Jun 2022
Midnight Sun Shines on Latest Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit
19,391 seed samples from 11 genebanks will be added Largest deposit will be made by the World Vegetable Center, including seeds from Indigenous communities Spain and Lithuania depositing seeds for first time More than 1.1...
9 Jun 2022
Athlete Michael Haddad Reaches Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Endurance athlete Michael Haddad successfully completed his journey to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on Tuesday, delivering a "package of hope" containing seeds and a book by Pope Francis to the world's largest backup facility...
8 Jun 2022
Crop Trust Annual Report Released: A Look Back at a Year of Change
The Crop Trust's 2021 annual report is now available. In his letter, Executive Director Stefan Schmitz reflects on a year of change and some of the key achievements and milestones the organization reached.
Read the full annual...
6 Jun 2022
The World Podcast: Ukraine Seed Bank Under Threat by Russian Invasion
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed lots of the country's infrastructure. Housing, roads, train stations and government buildings have been destroyed by Russia's military. Now, the country's main seed bank is under...
3 Jun 2022