“We need to preserve this biodiversity, this crop diversity, to provide healthy diets and nutritious foods, and for providing farmers, especially smallholders, with sustainable livelihoods so that they can adapt to new conditions.”Īlready, one-in-nine people go to bed hungry globally, according to the United Nations’ World Food Programme, and scientists have predicted that erratic weather patterns could reduce both the quality and the quantity of food available.
“The seed vault is the backup in the global system of conservation to secure food security on Earth,” Stefan Schmitz, executive director of the Crop Trust, the Bonn-based organization which manages the vault, told Reuters. The seed vault - located in Norway, sometimes called the Doomsday Vault - was built in 2008. Welcome to the Svalbard seed vault, also known as the 'doomsday vault', home to millions of seeds from around the planet. Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty Images Inside, stored deep within the permafrost, lies humanity's best chance of feeding ourselves in a distant, disaster-filled future. Seeds of these tubercules were sent to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SISV) in Norway. An employee of the Potato International Centre (CIP) in Lima, handles seeds of potatoes and sweet potatoes being cultivated at the Centre.
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In October, Norway completed an $11 million, year-long upgrade of the whole facility. Hidden approximately 400 feet deep inside a mountain on a remote island between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is designed to come to our rescue if that. Wikipedia Look Inside The Doomsday Vault That Protects Seeds Of The World 180,404 views 897 Dislike Share Save AJ+.
The 'doomsday' seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government. The vault is currently pretty empty in terms of its maximum capacity, with just a mere 980,000 samples stored in it from almost every country in the world, according to Crop Trust. Octo6:47AM Snow blows off the Svalbard Global Seed Vault before being inaugurated at sunrise, Tuesday, Feb.
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