smartbit
4 hours ago
Highly recommended documentary Seeds of Time (2013) [0] on Dr. Cary Fowler at the FAO responsible for building the Spitsbergen/Svalbard Global Seed Vault [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeds_of_Time_(film)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
a_bonobo
3 hours ago
I'd also recommend reading up on the Vavilov collection in St. Petersburg: an incredible history.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-tragedy-...