Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Two-thirds of the ...

The Big Ideas: What Is History? Through the ages, human survival has depended on our ability to cultivate and preserve plant diversity. By Cary Fowler Cary Fowler is an agriculturalist and a founder ...

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, seed banks ...

Seeds from 19 species of African trees have been added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. The trees were selected by the World Agroforestry Center for their value to communities across ...

As wildfires rage, oceans warm, and geopolitical divisions are becoming more pronounced, a quieter revolution unfolds underground and in climate-controlled vaults around the world. It’s a revolution ...

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Two-thirds of the world's food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...