ARCHE NOAH

ARCHE NOAH (Verein ARCHE NOAH) is an Austrian voluntary association dedicated to the conservation and development of cultivated plant diversity. According to its website, the association was founded in 1989 on the initiative of gardeners, farmers and journalists who wanted to take seed back into their own hands. It states that it conserves and maintains thousands of endangered vegetable, fruit and grain varieties, and works to bring traditional and rare varieties back into gardens and onto the market, with the support of over 17,000 members and supporters. Its activities include a show garden (Schaugarten), a seed and fruit diversity programme, education and projects, and policy work on seed rights.

According to the ARCHE NOAH website, the association was founded in 1989 on the initiative of gardeners, farmers and journalists who wanted to take seed as the basis of nutrition back into their own hands. The site states that since 1900, cultivated plant diversity has declined dramatically worldwide by around 75% due to the industrialization of agriculture, and that today genetic engineering, seed monopolies, climate change and wars endanger this heritage. ARCHE NOAH states that it counters this with a positive vision and numerous activities, conserving and maintaining thousands of endangered vegetable, fruit and grain varieties, and working to bring traditional and rare varieties back into gardens and onto the market with the support of over 17,000 members and supporters.

1. 1ARCHE NOAH - Gesellschaft für die Erhaltung der Kulturpflanzenvielfalt & ihre Entwicklungarche-noah.at
2. 2Über uns / Arche Noaharche-noah.at
3. 3Jobs und Praktika / Arche Noaharche-noah.at
4. 4Jahresberichte / Arche Noaharche-noah.at
5. 5Arche Noahwikidata.org