Seed banks, like the one at CIMMYT’s headquarters in Mexico, are part of planning for the future of food. CIMMYT protects the biodiversity of maize and wheat with more than 30,000 samples of maize and 150,000 of wheat.
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Seed banks, like the one at CIMMYT's headquarters in Mexico, are part of planning for the future of food.
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