Oslo, Oct 23, 2024 (AFP) - Palestinian seeds join Arctic 'doomsday vault'

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2024-10-23

A "doomsday vault" in the Arctic designed to safeguard the world's plant diversity has received a new deposit of thousands of seed samples, including Palestinian ones amid war and hunger in Gaza, it said on Wednesday. Opened in 2008, the Global Seed Vault offers a safety net in case of natural catastrophe, war, climate change, disease or manmade disasters. More than 30,000 samples from a record 23 organisations in 21 countries were deposited in t......

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