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Facts About the Global Seed VaultThe Global Seed Vault is a storage facility that safely stores the world's seeds in case of worldwide disaster.
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Crop Failure and Fading Food Supplies: Climate Change's Lasting Impact (Op-Ed)Opinion Cereals are not just for breakfast — and with grain yields falling, expect to feel the impact.
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'Last-Resort' Antibiotics Fail Against New SuperbugsA new gene in a strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) not only protects the bacteria against last-defense antibiotics, but is easily shared among microbial species.
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'Doomsday' Seed Vault: The Science Behind World's Arctic Storage CubeThe ongoing civil war in Syria has led to the first-ever withdrawal from the Svalbard "doomsday" Global Seed Vault.
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New Farm Maps Offer In-Depth Picture of Global AgricultureTwo new maps available for free download considerably improve estimates of land dedicated to agriculture, and provide the first global overview of field sizes.
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Engineering a Better Food BankOpinion Fairly and efficiently distributing food is a large and complicated problem and a team of engineers set out to make it work better.
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How Despots Arose With Agriculture (Op-Ed)Opinion It seems that with the beginning of agriculture around 10,000 years ago, group decision making changed
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New Tech Sheds Light on the Future of FoodOpinion We need to make better use of land, light and logistics for an increasingly urban population. And we need to incorporate zero-waste and low-energy technologies into the task of food production.
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