Representatives from many countries and universities arrive in the Svalbard's global seed vault with new seeds, in Longyearbyen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from ...

Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault saw its largest number of new contributors in one day and now holds over 1.2 million seed varieties from 77 countries. Since 2008, the vault has been stockpiling most of ...

COPENHAGEN, Oct 23 (Reuters) - An Arctic seed vault on Norway's Spitsbergen island has received new samples from the largest number of depositors since 2020, reflecting fear about the threat of ...

MEN INSTRUMENTAL IN CREATING A GLOBAL SEED VAULT TO SAFEGUARD THE WORLD’S AGRICULTURAL DIVERSITY WILL BE HONORED AS THE 2024 WORLD FOOD PRIZE LAUREATES. THAT PRIZE, AWARDED IN IOWA, GOES TO DOCTORS ...

Should we be worried about the future of food production, especially when climate change, threats to environmental ecosystems, and future overpopulation prediction models give us cause for concern?

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from around the world in man-made caves on a remote Norwegian Arctic island will receive more than 14,000 new samples on Tuesday, a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Adriana Craciun, Boston University (THE CONVERSATION) Two-thirds of the world’s food ...