What is the purpose of the Vault?Īround the world, there exist more than 1,700 of these gene banks which hold collections of food crops for safe keeping. The place was not only politically stable but also cold enough for conservations and most importantly remote from most dangers.
The biggest question then was where to put it?
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“We have the technology, we have the smarts, we know how to conserve seed, and so why can’t we figure out a way to have a facility somewhere which is safe and where seeds can be stored for long terms without any dangers?”, Fowler said in an interview. That was when Fowler and his team came up with the idea of seed conservation. Since 1990, more than 75% of the crop diversity has dropped down.
However, with excess industrialization, plant species decreased dramatically. History and its originsĪgricultural cultivation began more than 15,000 years ago. Or even when war destroyed seed banks in Iraq and Syria, the seeds here were safe. Hence, for instance, when a typhoon tore through a seed bank in the Philippines, it destroyed everything inside. However, this one in Norway, ‘Global Seed Vault’ or the ‘Doomsday Vault’ has been designed to last for thousands of years. There are over 1,700 seed banks around the world consisting of varied sizes and types. Since the future cannot be predicted, a collection of all these varieties is required as no one can know which of these traits can come into use later on.Ĭary Fowler said, “The idea behind this whole venture is to save all the pieces of the puzzle.” Certain ones are higher in protein and some others have high insect resistance. Here, different varieties of wheat have their own types of traits. In one room, there are more 150,000 varieties of wheat.Īccording to Cary Fowler, the wheat seeds are what represent the future. Tourists that come here are not allowed inside the vault, which consists of more than half a billion seeds from 930,000 varieties. The seeds lie behind an icy road, in racks of boxes stored at zero degrees that have been sent over from nearly every country. Why keep all these seeds here?Īs the weather there is extremely cold, it helps in the conservation of these seeds. The ‘Global Seed Vault’ headed by an American agriculturalist Cary Fowler heads this international effort with a team of experts safeguard the sources of the world’s food supply, one which has been designed to outlast any disaster, ultimately each and every one of us. However, deep within this isolated surface lies the largest concentration of agricultural diversity of the world.
On the Arctic Tundra in Svalbard, Norway, between Oslo and the North Pole, there are neither gardens nor trees.
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