El sisón es un ave pequeña que suele rondar los campos de cereal y los pastizales en busca de alimento, aunque a causa de los cambios que se han producido en nuestros paisajes agrícolas en las últimas décadas, cada vez resulta más difícil de ver. Este ave puede remitirnos, también, al nombre en asturiano de una ciudad española: Xixón. Ya que el obrador de pan de Paloma Martín y Pieter Verdonckt se ubica en esta ciudad y que ambos tienen vínculos con el mundo agrícola y forestal, decidieron que no había mejor nombre para su proyecto que Sisón (Marqués de Casa Valdés, 39, Gijón).

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In another life, Johnny Cross (Clovenfords, Scotland, 34) might have become a sports journalist covering British football teams, but an Erasmus year in Seville during his final year of university changed everything. There he met Marta, his partner, with whom he now has two children, and he decided to stay in Spain. He also realized sports journalism wasn’t for him, so he began teaching English to make some money — “very typical of the guiris [a Spanish term for British people] here,” he says with a laugh.

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It has been referred to as the “Doomsday Vault” or the “End of the World Vault.” But Fuad Gaši, who has been in charge of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault’s coordination since June of this year, prefers to speak about this seed bank in a somewhat more poetic and hopeful way. He sees the institution — which is located in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard — as a repository of knowledge that ensures the biodiversity of our planet’s crops.

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