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Svalbard

Jan 27, 2008

Thousands Of Crop Varieties Depart For Arctic Seed Vault

“Svalbard will be able to help replenish genebanks if they're hit”

At the end of January, more than 200,000 crop varieties from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East-drawn from vast seed collections maintained by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural ... via Free Republic

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