This week, thousands of seeds from gene banks around the globe were flown to a remote airstrip in the Arctic Circle. Host Carolyn Beeler tells how new deliveries of seeds from African countries help protect local gene banks from conflict and natural disaster and help insure crop diversity in the future.
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