Seed vault
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The site was chosen for its cold conditions and permafrost, which would help preserve the seeds in the event the. The vault also serves as a backup for plant breeders to develop new varieties of crops. Svalbard Global Seed Vault, secure facility built into the side of a mountain on Spitsbergen, the largest of the Svalbard islands (a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean), that is intended to safeguard the seeds of the world’s food plants in the event of a global crisis. It has the capacity to safeguard up to 4.5 million crop types. The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew in Britain will bank seeds harvested from the meadows of Prince Charles' private residence, Highgrove, including from grass species, clovers and broad-leaved flowering herbs. In terms of containment, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is impressive.
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Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust executive director The seed vault is the backup in the global system of conservation to secure food security on Earth. The purpose of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is to provide insurance against both incremental and catastrophic loss of crop diversity held in traditional. On Tuesday 30 gene banks will deposit seeds, including from India, Mali, Peru and the Cherokee Nation in the United States, which will bank samples of maize, bean and squash. Operated by regjeringen nordgen croptrust www. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on an Arctic mountainside in 2008, was designed as a storage facility to protect vital crop seeds against the worst cataclysms of nuclear war or disease and safeguard global food supplies.ĭubbed the "doomsday vault," the facility lies on the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, halfway between Norway and the North Pole, and is only opened a few times a year in order to preserve the seeds inside. Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a backup facility for the crop diversity stored in the worlds genebanks. A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples will contain one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain's Prince Charles.