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Arctic 'doomsday vault' stocks up on more plant seeds as pace of climate change increases

World / Social Issues Feb 25, 2020

Arctic 'doomsday vault' stocks up on more plant seeds as pace of climate change increases

An Arctic "doomsday vault" is set Tuesday to receive 60,000 samples of seeds from around the world as the biggest global crop reserve stocks up for a global catastrophe. The seeds are to be deposited in the vault inside a mountain near Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen ...

Making the case for heirloom farming

Food & Drink | Food Sustainability in Japan Sep 22, 2018

Making the case for heirloom farming

by Joan Bailey

Hidehito Komaki pulls a dried pod from the flowering stem of a cabbage plant and carefully splits it. Both sides are lined with tiny brown beads. "Each of these is a seed," Komaki explains to those clustered around him. "A single cabbage plant produces ...

Bayer approaches Monsanto in takeover bid for global agrochemical shakeout

Business / Corporate May 20, 2016

Bayer approaches Monsanto in takeover bid for global agrochemical shakeout

German drugs and chemicals group Bayer AG made an unsolicited takeover offer for U.S. seeds company Monsanto Co, aiming to create the world's biggest agricultural supplier and integrate pesticides and seeds markets. Monsanto disclosed the approach on Wednesday before Bayer confirmed its move, though neither ...

Celebrated Japanese-American California farm sows seeds for next generation

Business Nov 26, 2014

Celebrated Japanese-American California farm sows seeds for next generation

Growing up among rows of purple haze carrots, delicate Mara des Bois strawberries and corn sweet enough to eat raw, Makoto Chino might have been one of the best-fed kids in America. He would see celebrated chefs like Julia Child and Alice Waters visiting his ...

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