Arctic 'doomsday' food vault welcomes millionth seed variety

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A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday ...

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Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Agriculture and Food Minister Olaug V. Bollestad and Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo visit Svalbard's global seed vault in Longyearbyen. OSLO: A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain's Prince Charles.

FILE PHOTO: A guard stands watch outside the Global Seed Vault before the opening ceremony in Longyearbyen in the Arctic, on Feb 26, 2008. The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew in Britain banked seeds harvested from the meadows of Prince Charles' private residence, Highgrove.The vault also serves as a backup for plant breeders to develop new varieties of crops.

"We need to preserve this biodiversity, this crop diversity, to provide healthy diets and nutritious foods, and for providing farmers, especially smallholders, with sustainable livelihoods so that they can adapt to new conditions." The vault was last opened in October. With Tuesday's deposit, it contains one million different seeds, from almost all nations.

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