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First Svalbard seed deposit crowns Serbia's efforts to develop a dynamic conservation system for local cereal varieties
26 October 2021
26 October 2021
Svalbard, Norway, October 2021 – The Benefit-sharing Fund project, GRAINEFIT, celebrated a unique milestone, with the first-ever deposit of Serbian crop varieties into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The 96 accessions, including varieties...
First Special Session of the Governing Body
06 October 2021
06 October 2021
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: SUPPORT FOR REGENERATION AND SAFETY DUPLICATION AT SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED VAULT
05 October 2021
05 October 2021
Rome, Italy, October 2021– Crop collection holders in low- and middle-income countries can take advantage of a new funding opportunity to support the duplication and safeguarding of their collections in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Genebanks all...
Sharing & Taking Care of the Source of Our Food
Florence, Italy, 07 July 2021 – Villa Bardini was the venue for the first Italian ‘Summer School’ dedicated entirely to the implementation of the International...
Side event and white paper
05 July 2021
05 July 2021
This white paper emerged from an independent expert consultation commissioned by the Secretariat of International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, with support from the Government of Italy. The purpose of the consultation was...