Food security and the doomsday vault: foresight or fallacy?
by Charles R. Simpson
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), Vol. 10, No. 3/4, 2009

Abstract: In 2008, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture initiated a Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, an ex situ collection of the world's domesticated food plants for conservation and research. After examining seed vault policy in the context of shifts in agriculture over the last decades - centralization of seed innovation, seed patenting, and the impact of industrial agriculture on crop diversity - the analysis supports the conclusion that the vault' approach is not an avenue to food security because it accelerates the very system eroding genetic diversity in food crops and marginalizes in situ crop conservation.

Online publication date: Mon, 13-May-2013

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