Banking on seeds.

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Banking on Seeds A "doomsday" vault on Norway's Svalbard island, built in 2008 to protect seeds from climate change, war, and natural disasters, now contains 500,000 seed varieties, equal to a third of the world's crop seeds.

See "Farming's New Feudalism," May/June 2005, p. 10

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