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New seeds are being deposited at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

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Global Seed Vault Becomes More Important Than Ever As Climate Change Threatens Crops

30 Mar 2023

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Rhodes Graduates Reap Benefits from Decade-Long Ties to Global Seed Vault

30 Mar 2023

New Drought-tolerant Varieties of Durum Wheat and Barley for Morocco

Moroccan farmer Abdellah Bounagua shows a spike of Nachit, a new variety developed from crop wild relative-derived durum wheat. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust

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New Drought-tolerant Varieties of Durum Wheat and Barley for Morocco

17 Mar 2023

Visitors viewing the recently released virtual tour of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

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Svalbard’s mysterious ‘doomsday’ seed vault offers first glimpse inside with virtual tour

3 Mar 2023

Innocent Dossou Aminon, from the NGO GRIGADEB in Benin, deposited 427 accessions of seven crops.

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'Doomsday' Arctic seed vault gets boost as efforts to secure food supplies ramp up

1 Mar 2023

Alfalfa breeder Alan Humphries (SARDI) with the woody shrub Medicago arborea, a crop wild relative used to introduce new diversity into the alfalfa genepool, at the Waite Institute, Adelaide, South Australia. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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