10,000 seeds sent to the Arctic to save humanity

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In order to ensure global food security of 10,000 varieties of new crops from around the world will be added to the "Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic. Globally, the vault on Spitsbergen Island near the northern coast of Norway is already 825,000 seed samples, which represent as much as 13,000 years of agricultural history. This facility provides a "backup" of a network of seed banks around the world, which is also stored seeds, but who may suffer because of wars, accidents or natural disasters.





Protecting the diversity of world cultures - "fundamental" to ensure food security in the face of climate change, warns the Global Crop Diversity Fund (GCDT), who manages the repository. Series deliveries of seeds to Svalbard this month will help in this fight, the fund said. Four delivery major gene banks in Bulgaria, Colombia, India and Taiwan will take crops from 100 countries. These delivery includes wheat, barley, maize, sorghum, millet, chickpeas, peanuts, as well as Asian and African varieties of eggplants. Vegetable seeds, edible indigenous peoples of Africa are also included in the delivery. Saving different varieties of plant foods will help to develop crops that are able to withstand climate change, for example, are more drought-resistant or better adapted to high temperatures. Marie Haga, Executive Director GCDT, said: "Global vault in Svalbard symbol of what we can create long-term, sustainable and positive solution to feed the world».

via factroom.ru