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How this Arctic Vault Could Provide the Food of the Future

How this Arctic Vault Could Provide the Food of the Future The Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores duplicate copies of most of the crop diversity in the world. As part of the Our Planet Project, a…

Menus of the Future Should be Difficult to Decipher

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.…

Close-up of male hands cooking molecular dish. Dark background. Molecular cuisine

A Love for Lentils: How World Pulses Day Can Change the Way You Eat

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…

"This is History in the Making."

"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…

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway. Photo credit: Crop Trust.

Cherokee Nation to Preserve Culturally Important Seeds in Arctic Vault

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…

October 11, 2015. Different varieties of Maize are displayed at a stand in Texcoco, Mexico. Photo Credit: Juan Arredondo/Reportage by Getty Images for The Global Crop Diversity Trust.

We Need Each Other, We Feed Each Other

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 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Protecting the World's Crops Amid Catastrophes Like Coronavirus

The 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Protecting the World's Crops Amid Catastrophes Like Coronavirus Luise Boyle | The Independent Rising out of the snowy expanse on a remote archipelago halfway…

Is a Pandemic the Time to Think About Genebanks?

Is a Pandemic the Time to Think About Genebanks? Reasons to consider seeds in the time of the coronavirus By Luigi Guarino, Director or Science and Charlotte Lusty, Head of Programs and…

A Vault for Seeds

A Vault for Seeds Tim Farin | KfW While the world is talking of a crisis in international cooperation, the Crop Trust and its partners in countries around the world are creating a global system to…

Pandemics Aren't Limited to People

Pandemics Aren't Limited to People How the world's most famous seed vault defends plants against their next big outbreak Simran Sethi | The Counter Banner photo: NordGen In March, plant…

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The Crop Diversity Digest

From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.