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Jul 31, 2020 · The Svalbard Global Seed Vault – also known as the Doomsday Vault – is a gigantic bunker, sitting deep inside a mountain surrounded by snowy wastelands. The facility stores close to 900,000 seed samples from around the world and acts as a sort of back-up plan for agriculture, should disaster render parts of the planet unlivable or the world suffer a catastrophe, such as nuclear war or ...
Mar 2, 2018 · Welcome to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which turned 10 on Monday. It holds nearly one million seed samples from the world's gene banks - an agricultural back-up in the event of disasters ranging from nuclear war to climate change.
May 22, 2017 · Norway is repairing the entrance of a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island after an unexpected thaw of permafrost let water into a building meant as a deep freeze to safeguard the world's food supplies. The water, limited to the 15 meter (50 ft) entrance hall in the melt late last year, had no impact on millions of seeds of crops including ...
Feb 28, 2017 · Buried in the side of a mountain in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault stores virtually every kind of seed. And on Wednesday, that seed vault got even more seeds — almost 50,000 new samples — to help preserve biodiversity.
Jan 28, 2022 · The Svalbard vault is seen by many people as the ultimate guarantor that crop diversity will survive for future generations to use. But others disagree. Participatory breeding programs, community seed banks, subsidies to “seed guardians” and other farm and farmer-centred programmes run counter to the idea that diverse varieties must inevitably disappear from fields and therefore be frozen ...
Nov 29, 2019 · Next to the famous Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, is an abandoned coal mine protecting a different kind of resource against the end of the world: all of GitHub’s open source code. Image: CROP Trust
6 days ago · Sep 26, 2024. Smallholder farmers stand to benefit most from seed innovation. Image: Annie Spratt/Unsplash. This article is part of: Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics. Innovations in crop breeding will determine how we tackle the world’s growing hunger crisis. Climate change is the seed sector's most pressing challenge.
Dr. Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health (Seed), a non-profit organization focused on health systems strengthening and transformation through long-term investments and training of the health workforce. Under her leadership, Seed has helped educate more than 34,000 doctors, nurses, and midwives in seven countries, helping to improve health care for more than 73 million people ...
Jan 10, 2024 · From disinformation to inflation, these are the world's most pressing risks. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 says the biggest short-term risk stems from misinformation and disinformation. In the longer term, climate-related threats dominate the top 10 risks global populations will face.
Aug 12, 2024 · In 2024, through a partnership with The Climate Reality Project, 1,000 Global Shapers became certified climate action leaders. Over 400 local social change initiatives engaged more than 1 million people globally. The community also launched an innovation prize with Accenture and the Global Alliance for YOUth, recognizing top solutions led by hubs.
