Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The Doomsday Seed Vault: The Syrian War Prompts First Withdrawal There is a "doomsday" vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies. Now for the first time since the vault was opened on the Svalbard archipelago in 2008, seeds have been withdrawn. The original intent or charter if you will is designed to protect crop seeds such as beans, rice, and wheat against the worst cataclysms of nuclear war or disease (Doyle, 2015). Once you crack the seal, or pop the cork as the case maybe, it is easier to go back to the wine for a sip or two until the bottle is empty. The vault has more than 860,000 samples, from almost all nations and of course the seeds are stored so the world or a particular nation can recover from a catastrophe,…

M2 DBQ 1 Question 1: Scientists are collecting billions of seeds from all the world’s crops to keep in safe storage deep inside a mountain near the North Pole at a location called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. A. What is the purpose of this seed vault? The purpose of the Svalbard Global Seed Bank is this seed vault is to preserve the infancy of 38, 000 seedlings of Fruits, Vegetables, Grain and other dietary food items. This is pertinent, in the case of a worldwide epidemic. If an…

curiosity of food where vegetation is limited. A strong desire calls to explore Svalbard archipelago. Svalbard archipelago is part of Northern Europe. Svalbard is one of the cleanest places on earth. The islands located between the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Greenland, and Norwegian Sea, north of Norway. Svalbard is a sovereign state of Norway. Norse explorers may have first discovered the archipelago in the 12th century. During the 17th and 18th centuries the islands served as an…

Forward, Mao increased the planting of seeds on smaller areas of land and increased irrigation (184). After Mao died in 1976, Deng Xiaoping made reforms by introducing a two-tier system in which households were given their own land in which they decided what was to be cultivated on it…

they will produce a series of ecological disasters that will threaten human existence (390). I found an interesting article about how Bill Gates has bought into this model. He has invested millions on a seed bank in the remote Arctic Ocean area of the Barents Sea region. The place is called Svalbard which is a barren piece of rock 1,100 kilometers from the North Pole. The project known as Svalbard Global Seed vault aka ‘doomsday seed bank’ has some major contributors such as the Rockefeller…

The genetic diversity of ecosystems should be maintained as it is impossible to know what species will be needed in the future and because the maintenance of a single species can require the constant input of new genetic material from a variety of wild sources from the original centres of cultivation. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault known as the ‘Doomsday Vault’ is an effective example of a conservative approach to ensuring the maintenance of genetic diversity. The utility value, “usefulness”,…