Peru: Peruvian Potato Farmers Launch Ambitious Plan To Send 1,500 Varieties To Arctic Seed Vault

Peru: Peruvian Potato Farmers Launch Ambitious Plan To Send 1,500 Varieties To Arctic Seed Vault   Indigenous communities from Peru's Sacred Valley of the Incas begin historic collaboration to preserve the world's crop biodiversity   As climate change and disease threaten potato farming in the tuber's ancestral home in the Peruvian Andes, potato preservationists today launched a major effort to safeguard more than 1,500 varieties by sending them to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) in the...

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