Congratulations to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which celebrates its third birthday today. The huge repository, buried in permafrost in the Norwegian archipeligo of Svalbard, serves as a back-up for more than 600,000 plant seed samples from gene banks around the world. CIAT’s fourth shipment of seeds recently arrived atRead More …
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault marks 3rd birthday
25 February, 2011 by Neil Palmer (comments)Filed Under: Events
CIAT experts home in on endangered plants – to improve food production & climate change adaptation
11 January, 2011 by Neil Palmer (comments)CIAT’s Andy Jarvis – crop wild relatives by CIAT CIAT scientists are pinpointing areas around the world for the collection of some of the world’s most important plant species. The team will run computer models to determine the likely locations of endangered wild relatives of some of the world’s mostRead More …
Filed Under: Climate Change
New digital story – Backing up the gene bank
10 March, 2010 by Neil (comments)CIAT has sent its third consignment of seeds from its gene bank in Colombia, to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. The Global Seed Vault, buried in permafrost near the North Pole, safeguards material from gene banks from all over the world. In this 3-minute digital story, CIAT’s GeneticRead More …
Filed Under: Latin America and the Caribbean, Multimedia, Regions
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