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The Svalbard Seed Vault: Humanity’s Ultimate Safeguard
Photo Credit: Frode Bjorshol By Alex RossStaff Writer In the high arctic tundra of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, a steel facility holds the food insurance policy for all of humanity: 1,214,827 seed samples from almost every country in the world. Although it sounds like something out of an 80’s science fiction movie, this operation is no…
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Exploring the Roots of India’s Farmer Protests
Photo Credit: Cambridge Globalist and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 By Harshita Chitti Rao DevavarapuContributing Writer Known for its size and diversity, India is one of the largest countries in South Asia and the largest democracy in the world. Despite having a multitude of cultures, languages and lifestyles, one commonality that unites the multiple strands…