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 ...

Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under future growing conditions. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway ...

The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has made a historic, first-time deposit of 4,417 samples of Filipino rice, including important traditional and climate-resilient varieties at the ...

Microsoft is investing in apocalypse-proofing the world’s code Microsoft's GitHub plans to store code from open-source projects in Svalbard, near the Global Seed Vault, and other locations around the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Adriana Craciun, Boston University (THE CONVERSATION) Two-thirds of the world’s food ...