Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, palm oil fruit, sugar beets and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties around the world. This biodiversity protected agriculture from crop losses caused by plant diseases and climate change. Today, […] Read more
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Doomsday vault receives record seed contribution
OSLO, Norway (Reuters) — A frozen Arctic vault built to preserve global agricultural crops from extinction received seeds Feb. 27 from the largest number of new contributors yet, a custodian of the remote facility said. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, set in permafrost caves on an island halfway between mainland Europe and the North Pole, […] Read more
