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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Safeguarding Seeds for the Future. We offer safe, free and long-term storage of seed duplicates from all genebanks and nations participating in the global community’s joint effort to ensure the world’s future food supply. Read about the Seed Vault.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a long-term safety backup for the world’s crop diversity. Carved into the solid rock of the Plateau Mountain, the Seed Vault stores more than one million seed samples from genebanks around the world.
Mar 20, 2018 · The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a doomsday shelter for the food supply, is tucked into a remote mountain on Spitsbergen, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. Photograph by Jonas Bendiksen,...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault provides insurance against both incremental and catastrophic loss of crop diversity held in traditional genebanks around the world. The Seed Vault offers long-term protection for one of the most important natural resources onearth.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault facilitates security conservation of seeds, comprising genetic material of importance for food and agriculture. The History. The idea of having a global security storage facility in Svalbard, to house duplicates of seed conserved in gene banks all over the world began being discussed in the 1980s. The Facility.
Oct 25, 2023 · Welcome to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Way up north, in the permafrost, 1300 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, is the world's largest secure seed storage, opened by the Norwegian Government in February 2008.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault offers safe, free-of-charge, long-term storage of seed sample duplicates of the crop diversity stored in the world’s genebanks. The seeds are stored under black box conditions according to FAO’s genebank standards.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault offers free-of-charge, long-term storage of seed duplicates from international, national and regional genebanks and institutions. The ownership of the seeds remains with the depositing genebank.
Our Purpose. We offer safe, free and long-term storage of seed duplicates from all genebanks and nations participating in the global community’s joint effort to ensure the world’s future food supply.
