A new shipment of seeds from food plants has arrived at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for long-term storage. The shipment, now being taken into the seed vault in Longyearbyen, includes seed samples from Portugal, Costa Rica, Peru, Zambia, Azerbaijan and Columbia.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault, April-May 2012. (Photo: Simon Jeppson)
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which is established in the permafrost in the mountains of Svalbard, is designed to store duplicates of seeds.
The Food Chain Committee's power analysis, “Food, power and powerless – on the relative strengths in the food value chain,” shows that over time, the major food retail chains have increased their power relative to the other links in the value chain.
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