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From Nettle Soup to Genebanks: Joachim von Braun on Food, Science and the Seeds of the Future
For more than four decades, Joachim von Braun has been at the forefront of understanding and improving how the world produces and shares food. As a professor at the University of Bonn, he started the Center for Development...
30 Apr 2026
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Strawberry Seeds Deposited at the First Svalbard Global Seed Vault Opening of 2021
FAO’s International Year of Fruits and Vegetables is being recognized all around the globe—including at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Among the first deposits of 2021 were seeds of watermelon, strawberry and pumpkin. The...
18 Feb 2021
18 Feb 2021

