Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food

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August 31, 2009

http://www.ted.com The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop for whatever tomorrow may bring.

from the archives:

Jonathan Drori: Why we’re storing billions of seeds

No Strain No Gain – As SchNEWS Gets To The Root Of Problems With Seedy Business

Inside The Svalbard Global Seed Vault + “Noah’s Ark” seed vault opens

“Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic by F. William Engdahl (GMO)

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