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Preserving the world's seeds (6:00)


Listen August 20, 2007
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There's an effort afoot to preserve the diversity of the world's crops by collecting seeds. Those seeds will go into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault now being built in Norway, above the Arctic Circle. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more about the project from Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust.


The Global Crop Diversity Trust

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