Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...

Two-thirds of the world's food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...

The idea of a doomsday vault hidden on a remote Arctic island might sound like something from the latest James Bond movie. But the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is very much real - and could one day save ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Two-thirds of the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Adriana Craciun, Boston University (THE CONVERSATION) Two-thirds of the world’s food ...