I thought this story from the BBC website was quite interesting. It’s about a vault in the Arctic Archipelago where seeds from the main food crops are stored. Several kinds of rare chilli seeds had been delivered, including some cultivated by Native Americans.
What an amazing idea! Its cool to think that somewhere there is this magical vault containing the building blocks of all the food that we eat today. It’s designed in case some kind of natural or man-made disaster wipes out our crops and all seems very 2012 (the disaster movie about the possible end of the world) but also quite comforting.
To learn more about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, go here.
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