experts say we now get about 40% of our calories from three main crops - maize, wheat and rice - making food supplies vulnerable if climate change causes harvests to fail. Often referred to as the doomsday vault, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores copies of the world’s crop seeds. The world used to cultivate more than 6,000 different plants but U.N. Norway Doomsday Backstory ARWA00000000.jpg. The vault, which holds over 1.1 million seed samples of nearly 6,000 plant species from 89 seed banks globally, also serves as a backup for plant breeders to develop new crop varieties. "The fact that the seed collection destroyed in Syria during the civil war has been systematically rebuilt shows that the vault functions as an insurance for current and future food supply and for local food security," said Norwegian International Development Minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim. ICARDA made the first seed withdrawal from the vault in 2015 to replace a collection damaged by the war, and two further withdrawals in 20 to rebuild its own collections, now held in Lebanon and Morocco. To celebrate, leaders in the conservation of crop genetic resources are gathering next week to discuss best practices and to encourage sustainable use of the resources.
Inside lives the last hope should the unthinkable occur: a global. EL BATAN, Mexico (CIMMYT) The Doomsday Vault, that safeguards fall-back collections of key food crop seeds in the arctic cold of Longyearbyen, Norway, marks its tenth anniversary this year. Dug into a frozen mountainside on the island of Svalbard, it is hoped the project will safeguard crop diversity in the event of a global catastrophe. Norway is starting construction on a 'doomsday vault' in the Arctic which is designed to house all known varieties of the worlds crops. The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), which moved its headquarters to Beirut from Aleppo in 2012 because of the war in Syria, will deposit some 8,000 samples. In a remote mountainside on the Norwegian tundra sits the 'doomsday vault,' a backup against disaster - manmade or otherwise. The Arctic seed vault will be built into mountain rock. Peru, deposit seeds for long-term safekeeping at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway in 2015. On Monday, gene banks from Sudan, Uganda, New Zealand, Germany and Lebanon will deposit seeds, including millet, sorghum and wheat, as back-ups to their own collections. The Global Seed Vault, located on Norways Spitsbergen Island, took on water during the winter because of melting permafrost, according to the Guardian.As the Arctic continues to set record highs. The Doomsday seed vault protecting the worlds crops amid catastrophes like coronavirus. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, on Spitsbergen island halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, is only opened a few times a year to limit its seed banks' exposure to the outside world. A vault built on an Arctic mountainside to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive new deposits on Monday, including one from the first organization that made a withdrawal from the facility.
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