Farmers selected plants for seed because they looked and tasted good, without having any idea of what was really different about them.

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Susan Cohen is a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who offers this clarification: Accelerators are organizations that provide cohorts of selected nascent ventures seed-investment, usually in exchange for equity, and limited-duration educational programming, including extensive mentorship and structured educational components.

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It would be far more cost-effective to support local farmers in their breeding and evaluation of selected varieties already in community seed banks.

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For example, today the Rockefeller Foundation announced it will provide seed money for a new RE.invest initiative, a public-private partnership that will help selected cities to leverage private financing for sustainable storm water and sewer systems.

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