Side event om frövalvet under mötet GB 11 i Lima

Datum: 24 november

Tid: 13:15-14:30

Plats: Lima Convention Center, Mateo Salada (407)

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the world's largest backup facility for crop diversity, making it a crucial outpost for global food security. Today the Seed Vault contains more than 1,3 million seed samples of more than 6000 plant species from 131 depositors from all over the world.

This side event will focus on practical information for depositors, the mission of the Seed Vault and will highlight the importance of safety back-ups of seeds, not least through an example from Parque de la Papa in Cuzco, Peru.

Speakers:
•    Kent Nnadozie, Secretary, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), Italy
•    Alwin Kopse, Head International Affairs, Federal Office for Agriculture, Switzerland 
•    Sarada Krishnan, Director of Program, Crop Trust, Germany
•    Svanhild-Isabelle Batta Torheim, Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Norway 
•    Åsmund Asdal, Seed Vault Coordinator, NordGen, Norway
•    Brizaida Sicu and Ricardo Pacco, Community TK Experts, Parque de la Papa, Peru

Chair:
•    Lene Krøl Andersen, Executive Director, NordGen, Denmark

Program:

13:15 – Welcome, introducing the speakers, Lene Krøl Andersen

13:20 – The background and purpose of Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svanhild-Isabelle Batta Torheim

13:25 – The role of the International Advisory Panel to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (IAP) and outcome of the latest meeting, Alwin Kopse

13:35 – The relationship between the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, ITPGRFA and the Benefit-sharing fund (BSF), Kent Nnadozie

13:45 – From the Peruvian Andes to Svalbard: experiences of working with the recent deposit in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Brizaida Sicu & Ricardo Pacco

14:05 – The BOLD project – more than 40 genebanks receiving support to regenerate and back up key collections at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Sarada Krishnan

14:15 – Depositing seeds at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Åsmund Asdal

14:20 – Discussions and questions

14:25 – Short summary, Lene Krøl Andersen