FED:Aussie farmer travels to Nordic seed vault

AAP General News (Australia)
02-08-2011
FED:Aussie farmer travels to Nordic seed vault

By Michelle Draper

MELBOURNE, Feb 8 AAP - An Australian farmer will this week travel to a frozen Arctic
"doomsday" vault to deposit precious seeds as insurance for the world's food supply.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a converted mine 1300km from the North Pole in the
Arctic Circle which holds duplicates of seeds held in seedbanks around the globe, to guard
food supplies against an agricultural, climate or manmade crisis.

Victorian farmer Tony Gregson will travel with an Australian contingent to deposit
samples from a seedbank in …