Day: October 25, 2018

The passion of gardening from Europe to Asia

October 25, 2018

This is a first: France and China have formed a partnership around learning gardening in schools. With the 2015-2016 school year, 22,000 children from French-speaking schools in Beijing were introduced to the joys of growing flowers and vegetables, while at the same time, in France, the 17th edition of gardening in schools was getting ready. Beijing renews […]

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Svalbard: Noah’s ark of seeds

October 25, 2018

It may seem paradoxical to keep seeds in a safe frozen 1000 km from the North Pole. In this place where nothing grows, the seed bank of Svalbard, located in Norway, is mainly a “rescue bank”!  In situ and ex situ collections More than 1,500 gene banks store seeds or vegetative organs around the world. From the smallest to the largest, some […]

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