Peruvian potato farmers launch ambitious plan to send 1,500 varieties to Arctic seed vault
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 12:31
in Earth & Climate
As climate change and disease threaten potato farming in the tuber's ancestral home in the Peruvian Andes, potato preservationists today launched a major effort to safeguard more than 1,500 varieties by sending them to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) in the Arctic Circle within the next one-to-two years.
