seeds
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Big farmers use climate-resistant seeds. Most small farmers can’t get them.
Hundreds of millions of small farmers lack access to the seeds they want, according to a new report.
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China’s $450 billion farm plan could determine our fate
That’s a lot of scratch.
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This Colorado library lets patrons check out packets of seeds
Borrowers can't exactly grow seeds and return the exact same ones, but this library in Colorado has figured out a way around that fact of life.
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This truck travels the country collecting stories about seeds
Seeds are natural beginnings for stories: From a small start, they grow into a larger world and eventually end. They’re also good subjects of stories: Where did they come from? Who loved them enough to keep them around? How’d they reach the person who planted them in the ground? What happened when they went viral […]
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Peebottle Farms: Insta-heirloom
After her chickens destroy the spring garden starts, our urban farming columnist goes on an heirloom seed-seeking adventure.
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This is where your plants will come from after the Ecopocalypse
Wired has posted a series of photos of seed vaults, storage units that bank tens of thousands of seeds in an attempt to preserve biodiversity against threats of extinction and climate change, and we can safely say they're the creepiest way of ensuring that species survive. This is some mad-science stuff!
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Saving the world's future food supply is key to climate adaptation, says Cary 'Dr. Doom' Fowler
In a world being shaped by a rapidly changing climate, Cary Fowler believes the most efficient way to deal with the coming challenges is by hoarding as many different kinds of crop seeds as possible -- in a frozen mountain near the Arctic Circle. Which is one reason he earned the nickname "Dr. Doom."
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Monsanto's losing bet on GM sugar beets has bitter repercussions
Over the span of two years, Monsanto managed to grab control of the market for sugar beet seeds (and American sweet tooths), effectively wiping out the competition.