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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.
- About
The Seed Vault, carved into virgin solid rock was opened on...
- News
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- The Seeds
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault facilitates security...
- The Facility
The seed store facility consists of three halls, each with a...
- For Depositors
Being a Seed Vault depositor requires that the gene bank...
- The History
n 1984, the Nordic Gene Bank (now NordGen) ... In fact,...
- Purpose, operations and organisation
We offer safe, free and long-term storage of seed duplicates...
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The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides security of the world's food supply against the loss of seeds in genebanks due to mismanagement, accident, equipment failures, funding cuts, war, sabotage, disease, and natural disasters.
28 lut 2024 · In February, around 14,000 seeds are being deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The seed vault now has more than 1.2 million seed duplicates from about 80 countries. The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard received more than 30 000 new seed samples from 21 countries from Palestine and Sudan among other countries.
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.
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.
What’s the purpose of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault? The Svalbard Global Seed Vault offers safe, free-of-charge, long-term storage of duplicates of seed samples stored in the world’s genebanks. The Seed Vault works as an insurance policy for these genebanks should they lose their material for any reason.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault facilitates security conservation of seeds, comprising genetic material of importance for food and agriculture.