Arctic seed vault receives first deposit
Africans are the first to send seeds (for corn, soy, and other food crops) to the Arctic seed repository, by way of Oslo. The vault, pictured here, is among the seed bank projects being paid for by the United Nations, the Rockefeller, Ford and Gatsby foundations. — Mark Baard
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African seed collection first to arrive in Norway on route to Arctic seed vault
The vault is being built by the Norwegian government as a service to the global community, and a Rome-based international NGO, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, will fund its operation. The vault will open on 26 February 2008.The shipment, which was sent by the Ibadan, Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), consists of thousands of duplicates of unique varieties of domesticated and wild cowpea, maize, soybean, and Bambara groundnut. The seeds from the IITA genebank in Ibadan, Nigeria, were packed in 21 boxes weighing a total of 330 kg. The processing by IITA staff took several months, and the boxes were packaged over a three-day period, with 10 staff checking the accession list, reporting errors, and adjusting the inventory, as needed.
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This scares me way more than the tattoos.
I agree with Kathy – this seed vault is insidious. On a little island north of Norway bored miles deep into the rock… I’ve read stories but ultimately why?
Why, because their plan is to poison all our crops with gene-mod, de-nutrified, crap. “Control oil and you control countries; control food and you control people.” (Kissinger) Google “Codex Alimentaria” (with the quotes). See Alex Jones’ ENDGAME (youtube, or prisonplanet). See zeitgeistmovie.com Then you will understand most of what they know and plan for you.