BACKUP.VAVILOV- Discussion with Professor Louise O Fresco on her fascination with Vavilov.

Discussion with Professor Louise O Fresco on her fascination with Vavilov.

Louise is a well known scientist with extensive international experience in the field of food and agriculture. She published a book on Vavilov’s life and work, The Plant Hunter of Leningrad (in Dutch) and has visited nearly all the locations where Vavilov collected his samples. She was also instrumental in the negotiations for the UN Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources that led to the establishment of the now famous gene bank at Svalbard.

The talk takes place at the exhibition BACKUP.VAVILOV