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	Podcast:		Witness
	Episode:		The Doomsday Seed Vault
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:09:07
	Publish Date:		2019-01-07 04:20:00
	Description:		In January 2008, seeds began arriving at the world's first global seed vault, buried deep inside a mountain on an Arctic island a-thousand kilometres north of the Norwegian coast. The vault was built to ensure the survival of the world's food supply and its agricultural history in the event of a global catastrophe. Louise Hidalgo has been speaking to the man whose idea it was, American agriculturalist Cary Fowler. Picture: journalists and cameramen outside the entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault that was officially opened on 26th February 2008. (Credit: Hakon Mosvold Larsen/AFP/Getty Images)
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