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Author
Publisher
Prospecta Press
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The remarkable story of the Global Seed Vault — and the valiant effort to save the past and the future of agriculture. Closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast global seed bank buried within a frozen mountain. At the end of a 130-meter long tunnel chiseled out of solid stone is a room filled with humanity’s precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collection ever...
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