"Seed Security from Svalbard to Farmers’ Fields: A perspective from Norway"
Channel: CIMMYT WebCast
Date: 2021-05-20

Special Seminar Series - Scenarios for the future: How to create value in the new normal?
“Seed Security from Svalbard to Farmers’ Fields: A perspective from Norway”
By

Ola Westengen
Norwegian University of Life Sciences 

Ola Westengen works on the intersections of science and policy research on crop diversity and seed systems. Westengen was the first Coordinator of Operations and Management of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. His recent work includes the edited book Farmers and Plant Breeding: Current Approaches and Perspectives (Routledge 2020). He will present on the Norwegian proposal on Seed Security as a topic for the Food Systems Summit 2021. He does research on agrobiodiversity; conservation and use of genetic resources; seed supply systems; food security and adaptation to climate change; crop evolution and crop diversity as biocultural heritage. He is part of the program committee for the master program in International Environment Studies and the PhD program in International Environment and Development Studies, NMBU