The role of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in preserving crop genetic diversity

The role of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in preserving crop genetic diversityGenetic material in individual genebanks is potentially vulnerable to being lost (e. g. through conflict or a natural disaster). One important and simple security measure is to ensure that samples of these valuable genetic materials are conserved in more than one place. In this context, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault offers a free of charge service to store duplicate samples of seeds that are conserved in gene banks world wide. This chapter provides

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Provides a new understanding of the Victorian engineering professions

The accompanying explanatory notes guide the reader through the personal and political illusions which gave the play its immediate satirical impact

shams and poetry

Through a re-examination of Labour’s modernisation

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The book is an introduction to the pedagogy of dissensus

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this book analyses fears emerging in contemporary great-power states facing existential crises in their identity politics

cultural and institutional contexts