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 ...

High above the Arctic Circle, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete entrance juts out of a mountainside like something from a science fiction novel. This remote facility, dubbed the ...

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 ...

Svalbard, where births and burials are forbidden, is the northernmost settlement in the world and is home to people of many ...

Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin, two men who led the effort to create the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, will receive the 2024 World Food Prize. The vault opened in 2008 and now holds 1.25 million seed ...

MORE than 4,000 rice samples from the Philippines were stored in an Arctic vault as part of efforts to protect the country’s ...

The two laureates were awarded for their work on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For fifteen years, a storage facility buried in a mountain on 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 ...