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The 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Protecting the World's Crops Amid Catastrophes Like Coronavirus
Luise Boyle | The Independent
Rising out of the snowy expanse on a remote archipelago halfway between Norway and the North Pole, sits a granite edifice topped by a glowing art installation that resembles the Northern Lights. This...
31 Mar 2020
31 Mar 2020
Potatoes for a Changing Climate
Climate change is reducing potato yields in some important production areas due to more drought, heat, and diseases like late blight and bacterial wilt.
Our partners from the International Potato Center (CIP) are working with the...
23 Mar 2020
'Tip of the Iceberg' by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director
Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director
In November 2019, it was my honor to accept the position of Executive Director of the Crop Trust. While new to the role, I am already familiar with much of the Crop Trust’s excellent work, not...
23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020
‘Tip of the Iceberg’ by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director
Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director
23 Mar 2020
We Need Each Other, We Feed Each Other
Simran Sethi | Medium
Last week, the government of Norway, Crop Trust and Nordic Genetic Resource Centre — entities that jointly support the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — hosted a historic Seed Summit culminating in the largest...
9 Mar 2020
9 Mar 2020
Arctic Call to Action on Food Security and Climate Change
25 February 2020 | Svalbard, Norway
Originally posted here.
UN Secretary-General Mr Antonio Guterres has called for a decade of action and delivery to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. With just 10 years...
4 Mar 2020
4 Mar 2020
The President of Ghana Speaks at the Seed Summit
On 25 February 2020, the largest deposit since the Seed Vault's opening in 2008 (in terms of the number of institutions to send seeds at one time) took place in Svalbard as representative from over 30 different genebanks came to...
4 Mar 2020
4 Mar 2020
The Last Crop Before the Desert
“I’ve never seen barley looking this great before!” El Kbir Safraoui couldn’t hold back his excitement about the crop growing in his fields. And he had seen a lot of barley in his lifetime of farming in central Morocco.
Safraoui...
3 Mar 2020
Cherokee Nation to Preserve Culturally Important Seeds in Arctic Vault
7 February 2020 | The Guardian
The Cherokee Nation will bank beans, squash and corn, including some of the tribe's most sacred corn, in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, becoming the first US-based tribe to safeguard culturally...
21 Feb 2020
21 Feb 2020