SEMENTIVAE – Seeds for the Planet – Share your Seeds

We want to create a place where you can exchange seeds from all over the world in order to preserve the Biodiversity. Everyday we can observe types of plants disapearing from Earth because of human actions or because big companies are creating new seeds with copyrights in order to control what could be or not planted. In some countries people are dying because of the lake of seeds to plant and feed their population. We want to be able to preserve and rebuild the Biodiversity anywhere and who knows, may be in few years not only in our Planet but…

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. Conservationist Cary Fowler, in association with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), started the vault to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds that are duplicate samples, or “spare” copies, of seeds held in gene banks worldwide. The seed vault is an attempt to ensure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during large-scale regional or global crises. The seed vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement among the Norwegian government, the Crop Trust, and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen).

The Norwegian government entirely funded the vault’s approximately 45 million kr (US$8.8 million in 2008) construction. Storing seeds in the vault is free to end users; Norway and the Crop Trust pay for operational costs. Primary funding for the Trust comes from organisations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and from various governments worldwide.

But what will happend if that treasure will be destroyed? unreacheable? stollen? by war, political or economical interests or by natural desease.

We beleve that the biodiversity will be better protected in inumerous places all over the world. Share your seeds!