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“Foreign” Crops - From Maize to Mangoes - Dominate National Food Consumption & Farming Practices Worldwide Nearly 70% of the crops contributing calories, fat, and protein in a country’s diet…

What are genebanks? They are places where seeds, and other living material, of thousands of different varieties of the world’s crop plants are kept safe. Their mission? To serve up, like a great…

Landmark Partnership Guarantees Long-term Support For Globally Important Collections of Beans and Forages 18 April 2023, Cali, Colombia – A new Long-term Partnership Agreement (LPA) signed today…

New Drought-tolerant Durum Wheat Could Transform Farming in Dry Regions A new drought-tolerant variety of durum wheat named Jabal, which means “mountain” in local Arabic, developed together by…

Crop Trust and the Plant Treaty Launch Lifeline for Genebanks to Secure the Future of Crop Diversity Climate change, the global pandemic, pest and pathogen outbreaks, and political instability are…

Two Newcomers Join Svalbard Global Seed Vault for Final Opening of 2022 45,150 seed samples from 13 genebanks added to Seed Vault The Seed Vault passes the 1.2 million seed sample mark…

United States Contributes to Fund To Protect Collections of Crop Diversity Under Imminent Threat NEW DELHI, India (28 September 2022) – The Government of the United States of America has…

Midnight Sun Shines on Latest Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit 19,391 seed samples from 11 genebanks will be added Largest deposit will be made by the World Vegetable Center, including seeds…

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Inaugural International Svalbard Dialogue: Saving Seeds for the Long Haul On 25 February 2025, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault received a landmark deposit. Twenty-one genebanks deposited over 14,000…