Natalie Aird, seed bank inventory coordinator at Seed Savers Exchange, organizes packets in a facility at the organization's farm in Decorah, Iowa. Often described as the Nobel of food and agriculture ...

Among genebanks, there is something called the black box system, where you can send seed duplicates to another genebank for ...

Massachusetts-based Native Plant Trust has quietly amassed a enormous "insurance policy" against human-caused extinction.

The world’s largest backup library of crop seeds sits inside an Arctic mountain, but Colorado scientists play a key role in preserving plant diversity. Geoffrey Hawtin, the British Canadian plant ...

A storage facility in Norway built to safeguard crop diversity recently received more than 30,000 samples as concerns grow about climate change and food insecurity. By Amelia Nierenberg The Svalbard ...

Growing up in the mountains of western Guatemala, Feliciano Perez Tomas cultivated the same type of native maize his family had for generations. The breed of corn was central to his Indigenous K’iche’ ...

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 ...

As wildfires rage, oceans warm, and geopolitical divisions are becoming more pronounced, a quieter revolution unfolds underground and in climate-controlled vaults around the world. It’s a revolution ...