Archives de février, 2009
Parution USA – TIME.COM – Doomsday Vault Protects World’s Seeds near North Pole. by Caroline Poiron
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Doomsday vault protects World’s seeds near North Pole.
The Global Seed Vault, opened in February 2008, is receiving on a 5 term basis, shipments of 100 million seeds (4,5 million samples) that originated in over 100 countries. The Norvegian Government has invest in the futur.In October 2008, an expedition organised by ICRISAT and the Global Crop Diversity Trust will be set from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India to the Island Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen, depositing 20000 samples of 5 varieties of Indian seeds (Sorghum, peanuts…). Cultivated,identified,counted,and dried, the seeds conserved in the Norvegia nvault represent the most comprehensive and diverse collection of food crop seeds being held anywhere in the world.
A Photo story by Caroline Poiron/LigthMediation
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Parution COREE – The Hunters of the Golden Mountains. by Ziv Sherzer
Peulhs: the scatters.
Some say these people still live like at the beginning of the world’s creation.To find them you must go far into the bush, further than the horizon, where the earth is hardly tainted by the footsteps of man. Here is where they have established their camps, facing the wide expanse of the savannah.These men and women, who we call the « Fulani », guard their liberty, far from the sedentary population.The Fulani call the settled populations « those with limited horizon. »
Photos and text ©Florence Gaty/LigthMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Parution France – GEO ADO – Les Papous dans la ville de Marc Dozier (Cover story)
Lake Inle, the Burmese Venice.
Aquatic oasis set south of the Shan State, Lake Inlé has all the features of a Burmese Venice. A spot of poetry and hard work that became, in a couple of years, one of the country’s major tourist attractions.
Photos and text by ©Marc Dozier/LightMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency – +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Parution ALLEMAGNE – The Lascaux cave : A prehistoric sky-map by Stephane Begoin.
Russia’s Big Chill.
As the world financial crisis buffets country after country, Russia has been caught out because of its unhealthy overdependence on oil, gas and metals, which account for more than three-quarters of export earnings. The collapse in energy and commodity prices since this summer is exposing the country’s fragility: Russia’s boom, it turns out, was built on expensive oil,and precious little else. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the threat of large-scale unemployment looms.This all amounts to the first serious test of « Putinomics » – the domestic policies put in place by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the two terms of his presidency from 2000 to 2008. If you want to take the pulse of Russia, as its economic progress of the past few years comes to a sudden and wrenching stop, leave behind Moscow and drive 354 km southwest to the small Russian town of Lyudinovo.There everything slows down.
Photos by ©Justin Jin/LightMediation
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Parution FRANCE – Le long chemin de foi des Chrétiens Japonais par Jean-Michel Turpin
Kosovo : a « newborn » country.
The » NEWBORN » monument, which thrones in the city center of Pristina,symbolizes by itself the situation of the country.Kosovo is a « newborn », it will be one year old on February 17th, 2009: it is the youngest country in the world.
A Photo story by ©Bruno Fert/LightMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
