Seed Vault 10 year anniversary Summit
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- Published on Thursday, 26 April 2018 03:25
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in Norway has recently celebrated the 10 year anniversary. Prof. Graziano Rossi, was present at the summit, representing the University of Pavia in this collaborative global effort to preserve invaluable genetic agronomic resources for future generations.
The committe was chaired by Jonathan Drori, representing the UK Eden Project with assistance from a reference group consisting of Grethe Evjen, Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Charlotte Lusty and Luigi Guarino, Crop Trust and Lise Lykke Steffensen, NordGen.
The conclusions are also published at the official Seed Vault website managed by the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food, together with some other posts related to the anniversary, see http://www.seedvault.no/news-articles/
The presentations from the Summit can be downloaded from this webpost at the NordGen website https://www.nordgen.org/en/10-year-1-million/.
Images from the celebration, also at your disposal for non-commercial purposes, can be seen and downloaded from this Flickr account https://www.flickr.com/photos/163148635@N05/sets/72157664398013437.
A small film from the celebration can be seen here https://www.nordgen.org/en/svalbard-global-seed-vault-celebrated-by-representatives-from-all-around-the-world/