Press Releases

OSLO, NORWAY (9 February 2007)—The Norwegian government has revealed the architectural design for the Svalbard International Seed Vault, to be carved deep into frozen rock on an island not far from the North Pole. The entrance to...

WASHINTON DC, USA (5 December 2006). The Generation Challenge Programme  and the Crop Trust inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) during a brief ceremony in Washington, D.C. on 5 December.

The Generation Challenge Programme...

Dublin, Ireland (16 October 2006): Today is World Food Day. Despite progress achieved in agriculture and rural development, 850 million people in the world remain hungry and poor. Seventy percent of the world's hungry live in...

SVALBARD, NORWAY (19 June 2006)—On an island near the North Pole, heads of State from five Nordic countries and the Global Crop Diversity Trust laid the cornerstone today for a “fail-safe” seed vault to be carved into an Arctic...