Are seed banks the answer to food security in the future?
Live MintWith concerns about climate change and global warming on the rise, seed banks are considered as a last resort to conserving different plants and crops. On Friday, Agence France-Presse reported that a South American seed bank, named The bank in Costa Rica, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, has around 6,200 samples from 125 variants of edible plants like squash, chillies and tomatoes. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, which is in its 15th year, offers a place for duplicate samples of seeds that have been previously conserved in other seed banks around the world. We need these varieties because of climate change, increasing food production, dry and wet climate conditions, new plant diseases, and so on,” says Åsmund Asdal, the co-ordinator of the vault in a 2018 Lounge article titled, Svalbard Global Seed Vault: the seeds of our future.
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