April 13, 2026

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EU seed law reform: Can Europe balance modern breeding and crop diversity? (Food Ingredients First)

April 10, 2026

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Open Source Seed Initiative protects plant genetics and cultural history (Seattle Times)

April 9, 2026

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Reclaiming fonio: How Benin’s oldest grain is finding new life

April 7, 2026

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Practical role, global meaning – first-hand experience from NordGen’s soon-to-be Seed Vault Coordinator

April 3, 2026

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Digital Developments in Plant Research: Nils Stein, Head of the ‘Genebank department’ at the IPK, presentied at a workshop at the Vatican
Digitale Entwicklungen in der Pflanzenforschung: Nils Stein präsentierte beim Workshop im Vatikan

March 27, 2026

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New push to protect Africa’s seed diversity - A new FAO report warns Africa is losing critical plant diversity faster than it is being conserved, threatening food security and climate resilience (Financial Fortune Media)

March 23, 2026

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From Rome to the world: working together to protect crop biversity

March 17, 2026

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"The Nordic genebank: the most sacred room of all" - Featured article about NordGen in Natur og Miljø

March 12, 2026

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From Inner Mongolian fields to wild sunflowers to the Crop Trust

Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize - FAO and partners cited for enabling global cooperation to safeguard crop diversity

March 4, 2026

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Rehabilitation of ICARDA’s gene bank in Syria boosts food security and crop diversity (Sana)

Quand le semencier Syngenta s’épanouit dans le Gers - Le nouveau centre d’excellence en pollinisation de Lombez – 400 m2 inaugurés il y a un an – se veut un moyen de "participer au développement de la biodiversité" (Le Journal du Gers)

March 2, 2026

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The Crop Trust starts 2026 with new leadership perspectives

February 27, 2026

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Conservation milestone: WorldVeg secures over 90% of its global vegetable collections in the Arctic

Seeds, data and knowledge: International treaty secures global crop heritage in the Arctic - Milestone deposits made to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the Arctic World Archive

February 26, 2026

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Guatemala makes its first deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, safeguarding national and community seed heritage

February 23, 2026

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Film ab für die Genbank des IPK!
‘And Action’ – the new feature video for the IPK Genebank!

February 11, 2026

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Women scientists at the heart of genetic diversity conservation

February 10, 2026

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Crop Trust leverages Google.org's support for digital innovation in food security

February 9, 2026

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A Global system at work: Genebanks link across continents to protect seed collections

January 21, 2026

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Uzbekistan contributes to the global seed vault

January 16, 2026

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Vielfalt ist unsere Lebensversicherung – Sorten und Saatgut als strategische Ressource - Pflanzenzüchtung ist Schlüssel moderner Vorsorge- und Resilienzpolitik

January 15, 2026

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More than 4,000 rice samples from the Philippines have been stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway

January 5, 2026

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ICRISAT strengthens global capacity on digital sequence information to support future-ready genebanks

December 22, 2025

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Burkina Faso – Banque nationale des gènes : un projet de 565,4 millions de FCFA inauguré (Africa 24)

December 17, 2025

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Strengthening genebanks through regional collaboration across the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region

December 16, 2025

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Shanghai Seed Bank hits 100 million samples in biodiversity conservation push

December 15, 2025

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Reviving Vavilov’s vision: The tragedy of biodiversity governance and principles for reform (PNAS)

December 3, 2025

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Los guardianes del maíz criollo: la conservación de la semilla que sostiene la vida en Quintana Roo

December 2, 2025

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Peru - Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego (MIDAGRI) exhibe al mundo su mayor tesoro genético en la Exposición Internacional “Semillas del Perú”