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In  a  mountain  deep  in  the  Arctic  Circle,  130  metres  below  the  ground,  three  huge  rooms  appear.  In  these  rooms  are  the  seeds  of  the  worlds  most  important  foods:  wheat,  rice  and  potatoes,  as  well  as  vegetables  -  from:    to  peas.  They  will  be  locked  away  and  kept    for  hundreds,  perhaps  thousands,  of  years  so  that  if  world  disaster  ever  happens,  our  children  or  our  childrens  children  will  be  able  to  rebuild    without  losing  the  12,000  years'  worth  of  knowledge  weve  gained  so  far.  There  will  eventually  be  all  1.5  million  crop  varieties  known  to  man  in  the  room.
Protecting  plant  varieties  matters.  In  1948  a  man  called  Jack  Harlan  was  looking  for  samples  of  wheat.  He  found  one  very  unhealthy  plant,  which  was  too  weak  to  be  worth  growing  and  .  He  kept  a  sample  anyway.  Years  later,  when  a      almost  killed  all  the  wheat  plants  in  the  US,  a  disaster  in  terms  of  world  food  supply,  Harlan's  wheat  was  the  only  one  that  was  found  to  be  resistant.

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