Information Colombia has established the world's largest tropical crop gene bank: "future seed bank"

With the population growth, human demand for the total amount and quality of food is also increasing, and the earth's resources and environment are facing increasing pressure. Climate change and the rapid loss of biodiversity have brought many challenges to human food security in the future. Therefore, how to preserve food and crop germplasm resources has become a very important issue. The establishment of a global seed bank can become the reserve and response of all plant germplasm resources owned by mankind in the world.