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Inside the hidden world of Svalbard Global Seed Vault

With greater crop diversity needed to help agriculture overcome the changing climate, we investigate how one agriculturalist is safeguarding important plant genetics from extinction

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Inside the hidden world of Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Some 13,000km beyond the Arctic Circle, hidden 100 metres deep into the mountain face, sits a vault holding thousands of years' worth of farming's DNA. Kept at a chilling -18degC, more than 1.3 million...

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