Supposedly catastrophe-proof food crop conservation project located on the Svalbard peninsula,ships 38073 seed samples to Lebanon and MoroccoIt was meant to be the final insurance policy against a catastrophe that could wipe out the worlds food supply. Now the global seed vault – a repository burrowed deep into the frozen hillside of the closest town to the north pole – has issued its first down-payment on that legacy. The caretakers of the vault, situated on the Svalbard peninsula in the high Arctic, or said yesterday that they had dispatched the first shipment of seeds to try to regenerate ancient food crops lost during Syria’s civil war.
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Source: theguardian.com