'Agriculture faces a historically unprecedented combination of challenges. Haga's concerns are echoed by Carly Fowler, a renowned American agriculturalist who helped to found the seed vault. China is the notable omission, it said, although discussions are ongoing. The Crop Trust is urging other gene banks around the world to follow suit. In the decade since the vault was founded, 73 institutions have deposited crop-seeds at this so-called Bank of Last Resort. Shelves of boxes, stacked in neat rows at minus 18 degrees Celsius (0F), hold seeds from the United States and Russia, Australia and North Korea, and Nigeria and Colombia to name just a few. Today, 60 percent of global calorie intake comes from wheat, rice and maize, said Haga. Historically, farmers cultivated at least 7,000 different plants to eat. We are basing ourselves now on 12 plants and five animal species for 75 percent of the food we eat,' said Haga, a former Norwegian politician. 'Our food system is extremely vulnerable. To do that the world needs a diverse sets of crops in its arsenal, but that is exactly what it has been losing, experts said. The answer could lie in a modest room in the vault, measuring 12 metres (40 ft) by 27 metres, where nations have deposited seed samples of food crops for safekeeping, she said. That means the world needs to produce more food that is more nutritious, and to do so 'on less land, with less water, less pesticides, less fertiliser to keep within what the planet can stand', Haga said. The Crop Trust, an international group working to protect crop diversity, runs the vault in collaboration with the Norwegian government and the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen).ДЄmong the challenges facing agriculture, experts have said, are rising hunger, population growth and greater climate pressures. 'It's fair to say that agriculture has never, ever faced bigger challenges than today,' Marie Haga, executive director of The Crop Trust, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It holds nearly one million seed samples from the world's gene banks - an agricultural back-up in the event of disasters ranging from nuclear war to climate change. Welcome to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which turned 10 on Monday. LONGYEARBYEN, Norway, Feb 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A cavernous bunker on a remote island above the Arctic Circle, where polar bears roam, holds the key to 12,000 years of agriculture but also to food supplies for future generations with countries urged to deposit seed samples there. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.'It's fair to say that agriculture has never, ever faced bigger challenges than today' Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a 'scraper' or 'downloader' program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely.

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