Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds
An Inquiry into Agrobiodiversity Conservation Through the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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2025
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If crop diversity loss is a product of modern agriculture, is freezing seed diversity to adapt modern agriculture to changing conditions the answer?
How has the world lost three quarters of its crop diversity in less than a century? How does a collection of seeds frozen in the Arctic help face this loss and ensure future food security? And how can Indigenous knowledges and artistic interventions inspire modes of dealing with agrobiodiversity loss that respond to contemporary socio-ecological transformations with care rather than techno-salvationism? Franziska von Verschuer traces these questions from the world's stronghold against agrobiodiversity loss, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, to divergent worlds and modes of world-making it assembles along with seeds. This study shows that the future is more open than the popular story of the ›doomsday vault‹ suggests.
How has the world lost three quarters of its crop diversity in less than a century? How does a collection of seeds frozen in the Arctic help face this loss and ensure future food security? And how can Indigenous knowledges and artistic interventions inspire modes of dealing with agrobiodiversity loss that respond to contemporary socio-ecological transformations with care rather than techno-salvationism? Franziska von Verschuer traces these questions from the world's stronghold against agrobiodiversity loss, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, to divergent worlds and modes of world-making it assembles along with seeds. This study shows that the future is more open than the popular story of the ›doomsday vault‹ suggests.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.12.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Science Studies |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 225 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Schlagworte | Agrobiodiversity • Environmental Humanities • Svalbard Global Seed Vault |
| ISBN-10 | 3-8376-7811-3 / 3837678113 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-8376-7811-6 / 9783837678116 |
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