Reuters – A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples will contain one million varieties with the addition of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain’s Prince Charles. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on an Arctic mountainside in 2008, was designed as a […] Read more
‘Doomsday’ seed vault welcomes millionth crop variety
The vault was built to safeguard the world’s food supplies
Yara finance chief to lead CF merger talks after CEO fired
Oslo | Reuters — Norwegian fertilizer maker Yara International has fired its CEO Joergen Ole Haslestad, saying he was unsuitable to lead merger talks with Chicago-based CF Industries — talks which would continue under its finance chief. Yara and CF said last month they were in early-stage talks about a “merger of equals” that would […] Read more
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