Crop Trust, which works to preserve crop bio-diversity, needs to more than double its $300 million endowment fund to be able to support seed banks across the world, Executive Director Stefan Schmitz said.
Crop Trust seeks more funding to protect global seed diversity
Climate change, surge of conflict makes crop seed preservation more urgent, organization says
Arctic doomsday vault gets record batch of crop seeds
Twenty-three seed banks took part, nine of them for the first time
A frozen Arctic vault built to preserve global agricultural crops from extinction received seeds on Tuesday from the largest number of new contributors yet, a custodian of the remote facility said.
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