The Svalbard Vault: Whose Seeds Get Saved audio documentary cover
Survival 27 min

The Svalbard Vault: Whose Seeds Get Saved

A million seeds in the Arctic, and a catalog that tells on itself.

Inside the Arctic seed vault marketed as humanity's shared inheritance, and the quieter story of which countries, crops, and farmers its catalog actually represents. The vault works. The question is who it works for.

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