Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such infrequency is intentional. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than ...
MEN INSTRUMENTAL IN CREATING A GLOBAL SEED VAULT TO SAFEGUARD THE WORLD’S AGRICULTURAL DIVERSITY WILL BE HONORED AS THE 2024 WORLD FOOD PRIZE LAUREATES. THAT PRIZE, AWARDED IN IOWA, GOES TO DOCTORS ...
Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault saw its largest number of new contributors in one day and now holds over 1.2 million seed varieties from 77 countries. Since 2008, the vault has been stockpiling most of ...