Simran Sethi – Medium

Mar 2, 2020

We Need Each Other, We Feed Each Other

The urgent need to support agricultural biodiversity from soil to plate Last week, the government of Norway, Crop Trust and Nordic Genetic Resource Centre — entities that jointly support the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — hosted a historic Seed Summit culminating in the largest deposit of seeds into the Vault since its 2008 opening. The deposits were made by international and…

Biodiversity

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Biodiversity

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·Jan 16, 2020

The Woman Working to Combat Palestinian Food Insecurity, Seed by Seed

Despite uncertainty and limited access to resources, Vivien Sansour has created a movement to sustain food and preserve culture — Vivien Sansour spent six years searching for watermelon seeds. These weren’t ordinary seeds, but ones that grow a succulent fruit once abundant in Jenin, a 4,000-year-old city referenced in the Bible as the Plain of Esdraelon. …

Palestine

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The Woman Working to Combat Palestinian Food Insecurity, Seed by Seed

Palestine

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