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How smart technology is helping to breed robust plant varieties for the future

Combating climate stress with high-tech

Modern plant research today uses high-tech methods to develop new, robust varieties that are better able to cope with climate changes such as heat, drought or nutrient deficiency. It is important...

How soil protection is becoming a human task

A crisis beneath our feet

Soil is a vital resource: it forms the basis for human nutrition and provides a habitat for more than half of the world's biodiversity. However, healthy soil is becoming increasingly scarce. Find...

Inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

A Safe Haven for the World's Seeds

Carved deep into a mountain on the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard lies one of humanity’s most extraordinary efforts to secure the future of life on Earth – the Svalbard Global Seed...

What grows in Superland?

The flower of an amaranth plant

Whether it's the original tomato, crab apple or amaranth - there is great potential in old varieties and underutilized plants. They bring diversity to our fields and plates and could secure the...

A world map of whishes

The Database of Hopes

Wishes are a universal expression of human longing, hope and imagination. They arise from both the realities of our own individual lives and our collective visions – moving between fantasy and...

Results of the “Schalalalal!” campaign soon to be on display in an exhibition

Giant scarf handed over to sports museum

During the European Championships this summer, you sang into the “scarf-o-mat” at Futurium. This in turn turned your fan chants into a knitting pattern and created the longest fan scarf in...