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GLF Live with Tony Simons, Charlotte Lusty, Lava Kumar and Vania Azevedo
COVID-19 and genebanks
13 May @ 14:00 CEST / 08:00 EDT
From the quarantined desk of Landscape News comes a new series of live interviews with experts examining the linkages between COVID-19 and climate change. On 13 May, Tony...
6 May 2020
6 May 2020 - 6 May 2020
2019 Annual Report
Letter from the Executive Director
"The importance of the global family of genebanks as fail-safes for our planet’s future food supply has never been so apparent."
Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting the Svalbard Global...
4 May 2020
4 May 2020
Svalbard, A Day in the Life
Polar Bears, Choirs and Camaraderie
Touching base with Åsmund Asdal, Seed Vault Coordinator, NordGen
Coronavirus SARD-CoV-2 (COVID-19) continues to significantly impact so many of us around the world. With countries on...
1 May 2020
1 May 2020
Is a Pandemic the Time to Think About Genebanks?
Reasons to consider seeds in the time of the coronavirus
By Luigi Guarino, Director or Science and Charlotte Lusty, Head of Programs and Genebank Platform Coordinator
Perhaps you think that the middle of a global pandemic is not...
25 Apr 2020
25 Apr 2020
Climate-proofing Our Foods With Crop Wild Relatives
This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Climate change represents the biggest challenge to the future of humanity and to our foods. Although farmers have been adapting crops for thousands of years through the...
22 Apr 2020
22 Apr 2020
Cryopreservation and the Future of Plant Conservation
It might come as a surprise that there are many crops that can’t be conserved in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Aside from today’s star the banana, these include favorites like: cacao, cassava, coffee, potato, sweetpotato,...
15 Apr 2020
15 Apr 2020
