Entrance to the Vault at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

  Video: Inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault -- The New York Times (24 May 2017)

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In the News . . .

• ‘On the brink of extinction’: a food historian’s hunt for ingredients vanishing from US plates -- The Guardian (05 November 2023)
  
  
• ‘The most amazing link to our history’: the farmers reclaiming their heritage one seed at a time -- The Guardian (23 May 2022)
  
  
• A seed for all seasons: can ancient methods future-proof food security in the Andes? -- The Guardian (25 December 2021)
  
  
• ROWEN’S STORY -- Sierra Seeds
  
  
• The forgotten foods that can revolutionise your diet -- BBCReel (04 February 2021)
  
  
• Native American farm's growth helps to feed community -- MPRNews (24 September 2020)
  
  
• How Native Americans Are Fighting a Food Crisis -- The New York Times (13 April 2020)
  
  
• Which foods will survive the apocalypse? -- BBCfuture (31 March 2020)
  
  
• Seeds, kale and red meat once a month – how to eat the diet that will save the world -- The Guardian (17 January 2019)
  
  
• Climate Change: Doomsday Vault Designed to Protect World’s Food Supply Will Receive $13 Million Upgrade -- Newsweek (27 February 2018)
  
  
• Seeds Only a Plant Breeder Could Love, Until Now -- The New York Times (27 February 2018)
  
  
• This Tiny Country Feeds the World -- National Geographic (06 September 2017)
  
  
• Video: Inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault -- The New York Times (24 May 2017)
  
  
• Chemical giant Bayer agrees to buy Monsanto for $66 billion -- MPRNews (14 September 2016)
  
  
• What $62 billion in cash could buy you: Monsanto -- MPRNews (23 May 2016)
  
  
• Bayer's Monsanto bid to create biggest agricultural supplier -- BBCNews (23 May 2016)
  
  
• Bayer makes takeover offer for agriculture giant Monsanto -- BBCNews (19 May 2016)
  
  
• Spreading Seeds by Human Migration -- EurekAlert (13 April 2016)
  
  
• The vaults that keep old yeasts on ice -- BBCfuture (30 March 2016)
  
  
• Finding the Best Seeds to Match Africa's Needs -- EurekAlert (18 February 2016)
  
  
• Why Getting Nepal the Right Seeds After the Earthquakes Matters -- National Geographic (16 September 2015)
  
  
• Anthropology in Action: UA Helps Plant a New Kind of Library -- University of Arizona News (09 September 2015)
  
  
• What Was in the Real Paleo Diet Way Back When? It Wasn’t Just Meat -- Washington Post (29 June 2015)
  
  
• How Little Seeds Shaped Human History in Big Ways -- National Geographic News (29 April 2015)
  
  
• China Moves a Step Forward in Its Quest for Food Security -- The New York Times (05 April 2017)
  
  
• Duluth library modifies seed sharing as it waits for law to change -- Duluth News Tribune (24 March 2015)
  
  
• Climate-Adaptation Effort Cuts Hunger in African Villages -- Nature (13 March 2015)
  
  
• Africa Seed Index Raises Bigger Yield Hopes for Farmers -- BBC News (13 March 2015)
  
  
• Forest tree seeds arrive at Svalbard's 'Doomsday vault' -- NPR (02 March 2015)
  
  
• Duluth library's seed sharing program hits a hurdle -- NPR (30 November 2014)
  
  
• Seed libraries struggle with state laws limiting exchanges -- AP (28 December 2014)
  
  
• On The Trail To Preserve Appalachia's Bounty Of Heirloom Crops -- NPR (03 November 2014)
  
  
• Food Forward: Urban Agriculture Across America -- PBSvideo (2014)
  
  
  • Seeds of Change [video 24:40] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (05 September 2014)
  • Go Fish! [video 24:45] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (29 August 2014)
  • SOS: Save Our Soil [video 24:46] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (05 September 2014)
  • The Meat of the Matter [video 24:44] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (29 August 2014)
  • Pilot Episode: Urban Farming [video 24:31] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (04 April 2012)
    
    
• The 10 Companies Controlling the World’s Seed Supply -- Cristina Sarich, NationofChange (21 October 2013)
  
  
• Can science help improve food security? -- BBCNews (11 October 2012)
  
  
• Rich research pickings at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault -- Global Crop Diversity Trust
  
  

• A Short History of the Seed and Nursery Catalogue in Europe and the U.S. -- Oregon State University
  
  
• Barber, Dan. The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food. NY: Penguin, 2014.
  
  
• 'Doomsday' vault opens its doors -- BBCNews (26 February 2008)
  
  
• Pictures: "Doomsday" Seed Vault Safeguards Our Food Supply -- National Geographic (2 July 2012)
  
  
• Duluth Seed Library
  
  
• Evolution and Domestication of Seed Structure Shown to Use Same Genetic Mutation -- ScienceDaily (07 July 2011)
  
  
• Fowler, Cary -- Wikipedia
  
  
  • "Saving the World's Genetic Plant Heritage" -- Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010)
    view video on-line
    
    
  • Talks Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food -- TED (July 2009, Oxford, England)
    
    
• Global Crop Diversity Trust -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Hobhouse, Henry. Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind Reprint Edition. Counterpoint, 2005.
  
  
• List of Common Botanical Seed Names -- AsureQuality
  
  
• The Millennium Seed Bank Project -- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  
  
• More seeds for 'doomsday vault'-- BBCNews (26 February 2009)
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul. Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation. University of Arizona Press, 2002.
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul (Ed.). Forward by Deborah Madison. Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul. Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine. Island, 2011.
  
  
• Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010)
  (archives are available online at <http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/archive.php>)
  
  
  • Cary Fowler
    Second Lecture: "Saving the World's Genetic Plant Heritage"
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• Peruvian Potato Farmers Launch Ambitious Plan to Send 1,500 Varieties to Arctic Seed Vault -- EurekAlert (15 February 2011)
  
  
• Planting 'seeds of hope' -- CNN Heroes (15 July 2011)
  
  
• 'Red hot' chillies arrive at frozen seed vault-- BBCNews (12 July 2010)
  
  
• Rich research pickings at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault -- Global Crop Diversity Trust
  
  
• The Seed Biology Place -- Gerhard Leubner, University of Freiburg, Germany
  
  
• The Seed Site
  
  
• The Svalbard Global Seed Vault -- Ministery of Agriculture and Food, Oslo, Norway
  
  
• Svalbard seed vault to take Peruvian potato samples-- BBCNews (17 February 2011)
  
  
• Thoreau, Henry David. (Ed. by Bradley P. Dean). Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion Of Seeds And Other Late Natural History Writings. Island Press, 1996.
  
  
• TIME's Best Inventions 2008: The Global Seed Vault -- TIME
  • The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Photo Essays
    
    
• Top 100 Stories of 2008 #20: The “Doomsday Vault” Stores Seeds for a Global Agriculture Reboot -- Discover (19 December 2008)
  
  
• What's going into Norway's 'doomsday vault'? -- Julia Layton, howstuffworks (15 February 2007)
  
  
• Wild Food Crop Relatives to Be 'Rescued'-- BBC News (10 December 2010)

VIDEO

• Diverseeds Video: Svalbard and Seedvault
• Diverseeds documentary film on the global importance of seed diversity, incl. Svalbard Global Seed Vault
• Talks Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food -- TED (July 2009, Oxford, England)
• Cary Fowler, "Saving the World's Genetic Plant Heritage" -- Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010) view video on-line
  

The “Doomsday Vault” Stores Seeds for a Global Agriculture Reboot -- Discover (19 December 2008)