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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 quantity of food available. 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. 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 that manages the vault said. The world used to cultivate around 7,000 different plants but experts say we now get about 60% of our calories from three main crops - maize, wheat and rice - making food supplies vulnerable if climate change causes harvests to fail. The vault also serves as a backup for plant breeders to develop new varieties of crops. The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew in Britain banked seeds harvested from the meadows of Prince Charles' private residence, Highgrove. By Tim Nelson OctoCredit: Oreo 2020 has been a historically awful year, but it isn't the end of the world at least not literally. The Doomsday Seed Vault has been built deep inside Arctic mountains. Buried deep Inside a mountain, the Vault hopes to ensure survival of organic matter and archived data. The purpose of the Vault is to store duplicates (backups) of seed samples from the world’s crop collections.
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On Tuesday, 30 gene banks deposited seeds, also including offerings from India, Mali and Peru. Oreo Built a Doomsday Vault in Norway to Keep the Cookie Recipe Safe It's like the Global Seed Vault, but actually important. On 1 January 2008 the Nordic Gene Bank was integrated with NordGen. Doomsday seed vault carved into the Arctic landscape opens its doors to receive a rare deposit Norway launched a Noahs ark of the plant kingdom in 2008 that will protect crop seeds from distaster. Dubbed the Global Music Vault, the repository is said to be. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on a 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 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. According to Billboard, the Oslo-based company is developing 'a doomsday vault' on an arctic island between the North Pole and Norway. The sealed vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain's Prince Charles. Dubbed the doomsday vault, the facility lies on the island of Spitsbergen in the archipelago of Svalbard, halfway between Norway and the North Pole