October 19, 2021

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A Syrian seed bank’s fight to survive (The New Yorker)

November 13, 2020

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An international rescue mission from Syria to Svalbard

May 26, 2020

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Pandemics aren’t limited to people: How the world’s most famous seed vault defends plants against their next big outbreak (The  Counter)

May 18, 2020

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The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Global Seed Vault
Il Trattato Internazionale e il Deposito Globale di Semi delle Isole Svalbard

March 24, 2020

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‘Tip of the Iceberg’ by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director

February 24, 2020

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World’s food systems rely on biodiversity - FAO Director-General urges “robust” outcome from Convention on Biological Diversity negotiations

December 3, 2019

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Wild plants from four continents deliver climate change lifeline for xrops - Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food

November 14, 2019

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New tool to help local crop varieties flourish - FAO publishes Voluntary Guidelines for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Farmers Varieties/Landraces

November 11, 2019

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Global treaty critical for saving disappearing plants amid climate change - FAO calls for greater support for plant genepool and the Fund which support millions of farmers around the world

November 8, 2019

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The Plant Treaty: Q&A with Crop Trust Director of Science, Luigi Guarino

September 13, 2019

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Can the gene editing technology known as CRISPR help reduce biodiversity loss worldwide? Though scientists are optimistic that CRISPR could help, they also emphasize caution and community engagement in order to get it right (Ensia)

March 28, 2019

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SPGRC in Zambia urge all the world’s gene banks to use the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

March 21, 2019

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Biopiracy: The misuse of patenting systems at the disadvantage of local communities

February 22, 2019

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The biodiversity that is crucial for our food and agriculture is disappearing by the day - FAO launches the first-ever global report on the state of biodiversity that underpins our food systems

February 6, 2019

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A very small number of crops are dominating globally - That's bad news for sustainable agriculture

January 24, 2019

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Le roi des fèves - Grâce à des années de collecte de spécimens de haricots issus du monde entier, un ingénieur a constitué, en Colombie, une gigantesque banque de semences (Courrier international)

February 23, 2018

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Save the seeds - and the living plants we eat and use - Svalbard seed vault is the apex of a global network to protecting plant genetic resources for food and agriculture

December 29, 2017

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Steps and experiments to preserve Syrian wheat genes (Enab Baladi)

November 23, 2017

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Doomsday seed bank in Lebanon gets bigger as humanity's 'last resort' is bulked up with 70000 new samples (Daily Mail)

November 22, 2017

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Seeds hold hidden treasures for future food - More than 70,000 of the world's most precious seeds have been sent from the UK's Millennium Seed Bank to the Middle East, in its largest export to date (BBC

November 15, 2017

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The global partnership working around the clock to save wild relatives of major crops (Food Tank) 

November 13, 2017

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International seed sector renews commitment to genetic resources 

October 13, 2017

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How a seed bank, almost lost in Syria’s war, could help feed a warming planet (The New York Times)

May 22, 2017

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Royal Botanic Gardens releases The State of the World's Plants Report 2017 - 1,730 new plant species discovered, including foods of the future

January 11, 2017

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The Crop Trust - A look back on 2016

December 22, 2016

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Syria - ICARDA’s seed bank keeps going despite the war (Aeon)

December 1, 2016

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Ronnie Coffman, vice-chair of the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative, speaks on agrobiodiversity in India

November 9, 2016

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Break down barriers between seed banks and field study (SciDev.Net)

November 3, 2016

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Public initiatives key to harnessing genetic diversity for food security, says genetic resources expert

September 27, 2016

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Gene bank crowdfunding campaign gains traction with commercial seed industry - A pledge of $10,000 by international plant breeding company KWS has given a big boost to an online crowdfunding initiative aiming to help maintain the world’s largest maize and wheat germplasm bank