These rare seeds escaped Syria’s war — to help feed the world

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By Matt SimonNov 22, 2020, 3:55 am579 ptsHot
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2014, the remaining staff of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, or ICARDA, fled their beloved gene bank in Tel Hadia, 20 miles south of Aleppo. Syria’s civil war,…

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