Ensuring the safety of our seeds
With the recent shipment of 3702 accessions, 91% of ICRISAT’s genebank collection has been safety duplicated at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Read more...
Is a pandemic the time to think about genebanks?
Perhaps you think that the middle of a global pandemic is not an appropriate time to be discussing seed banks. Think again. Read more...
Saving the seed: A bank that secures the future of agriculture
Stashed away in earthquake proof and environment-controlled vaults in south India, are thousands of stockpiles of seeds of crops important to Read more...
Preserving the genetic diversity of dryland crops for posterity: The role of phytosanitation
The ICRISAT genebank in India chronicles over 10,000 years of cultivated dryland crops history. It conserves over 120,494 accessions of dryland cereals Read more...
Contribution to Global Food Security
Many of you may have seen news reports a few weeks ago of the first significant withdrawal of seeds from the so Read more...