Around the world, botanists are battling to find rare wild seed strains before they die out – helping ensure food supplies that can survive the perils of climate change. Trapped by Hitler’s soldiers during the brutal winter of 1941-42, a band of Russian botanists faced a terrible choice. For more than a decade, workers at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry had been gathering seeds from all over the world and carefully preserving them in…
Can wild seeds save us from food apocalypse?
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