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The sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2 to 13 December 2024.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opens its doors to receive the first shipment of the year of the world's crop diversity. This deposit marks a major milestone in international collaboration for food…

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit - October 2025 The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opens its doors to receive a shipment of the world's crop diversity for the third time this year. Members of the…

The Annual Meeting 2025 convenes global leaders to address key global and regional challenges. These include responding to geopolitical shocks, stimulating growth to improve living standards, and…

The 61st edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) will take place from February 14 to 16, 2025, at its traditional venue, the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich.

The Guardian: Not Just A Museum A recent article by The Guardian underscores the important role of national genebanks in supporting farmers to adapt to climate challenges. Focusing on the Genetic…

The New York Times: The World’s Doomsday Plant Vault Gets Thousands of New Seeds The world’s seed savers are racing to safeguard the world’s crop diversity in “the world’s doomsday garden shed,”…

COP16 Recap: New Fund, Indigenous Rights and Colombia’s Treaty Step The 16th UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), hosted for the first time by Colombia from 21 October to 1 November 2024, marked a…

Bloomberg: Arctic Vault Stashes More Seeds for Future Food As reported by Bloomberg, 23 depositors from 21 countries sent boxes of seeds that contain over 30,000 seed samples for safekeeping at the…