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Seed Saving 101: Everything You Need to Know

Seed Saving 101: Everything You Need to Know

During the pandemic, many turned to gardening as a refuge. According to a survey, while many did it because they were concerned about food access and food security, others also said it was mainly a way to feel less isolated and depressed, and as a way to grow food for the community.  So many people […]

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    How (and Why) to Be a Seed Savior

    How (and Why) to Be a Seed Savior

    By Nancy Castaldo Wheat, maize, rice … repeat. Those three starchy plants provide about half of all the calories we consume. What’s more, of the 12,000 plant species that can be used for human food, only about 150 are cultivated. And that heavy reliance on a limited number of crops poses a serious risk when […]

    World’s Largest Seed Bank Hits One Million Unique Food Crops

    World’s Largest Seed Bank Hits One Million Unique Food Crops

    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle—also known as the “doomsday vault” safeguarding the world’s most diverse collection of seeds—now holds 1,059,646 unique crop varieties after receiving more than 70,000 samples on Monday. Depositors from 23 seed banks around the world braved sub-zero temperatures to deliver duplicate seeds of vital staples such as […]

    50,000 Seeds Deposited to ‘Doomsday Vault’ Housing World’s Largest Collection of Crop Diversity

    50,000 Seeds Deposited to ‘Doomsday Vault’ Housing World’s Largest Collection of Crop Diversity

    A major seed deposit critical to ensuring global food security was made to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle on Wednesday. Despite a backdrop of geopolitical volatility, nearly 50,000 samples of seeds from seed collections in Benin, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, the U.S, Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and the […]

    States Join Fed’s Antitrust Probes of Bayer-Monsanto, Dow-DuPont Mergers

    States Join Fed’s Antitrust Probes of Bayer-Monsanto, Dow-DuPont Mergers

    Several U.S. state attorneys general will reportedly join the federal antitrust investigations of the pending multibillion dollar deals between DuPont and Dow Chemical Co and Bayer AG and Monsanto Co, respectively. An online petition to EU Commissioner for Competition: Margrethe Vestager, and Head of the antitrust Authority in the U.S. Department of Justice to block […]