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‘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
"This is History in the Making."
8 February 2020 | CBS News
With its deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on 25 February 2020, the Cherokee Nation will become the first U.S. tribe to preserve culturally important seeds in the Seed Vault.
Included in the...
13 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020
A Love for Lentils: How World Pulses Day Can Change the Way You Eat
Pulses have a long, rich history. The first evidence of pulses comes from 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Middle East which was home to some of the earliest human civilizations. Today, hundreds of...
10 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020
Menus of the Future Should be Difficult to Decipher
The global food system relies on just a fraction of foods. Just four crops - wheat, rice, maize and potato - provide 60 per cent of our calories. Relying on a limited amount of crops for our food is not only less nutritious but...
28 Jan 2020
28 Jan 2020