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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides ...
Crop diversity is the biological foundation of agriculture, and is the raw material plant breeders and farmers use to adapt crop varieties to pests and diseases.In the future, this crop diversity will play a central role in helping agriculture adjust to climate change and adapt to water and energy constraints.
The foundation have funded corn crop researchers in Africa for more than a decade, and the report touts the promise of what Bill Gates calls “magic seeds” to help alleviate world hunger.
The two men behind the so-called “Doomsday vault” holding 1.25 million seed samples ― seeds that can be used to rebuild much the world's food supply if catastrophe hits ― are this year’s ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault holds 1.25 million seed samples of more than 6,000 plant species in an underground facility in the Arctic Circle. Scientists honored as 2024 World Food Prize ...
A placement student cleaning Pilosella officinarum seeds under a dust hood at the Millennium Seed Bank. Seed collections arrive at the MSBP in varying states, sometimes attached to fruits, sometimes clean. The collections usually also include a voucher specimen that can be used to identify the plant. The collections are immediately moved to a ...
Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.
Gates is currently worth $105.8 billion (as of this writing), according to Forbes, making him the 14th richest person in the world today. However, he has vowed to give most of his money to charity ...