The Cost of High-Tech Seeds in the Global South

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High-tech seeds are commonly used in wealthy countries like the United States and throughout Europe. But they're much less likely to be used by farmers in poorer countries where crop yields tend to be lower. The lack of resources devoted to developing new, higher-performing seeds for these crops has earned them the nickname orphan crops.

Feeding the world’s growing population is an increasingly difficult challenge, and climate change won’t make it any easier. Vox’s Kenny Torrella visited the Netherlands, a small country with big ideas about the future of food, to find out more about how the country is approaching the problem.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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