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. [5]

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.

Millions of these tiny brown specks, from more than 930,000 varieties of food crops, are stored in the Global Seed Vault on Spitsbergen, part of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. It is essentially a...

Mar 17, 2009 · Svalbard Global Seed Vault, secure facility built into the side of a mountain on Spitsbergen, the largest of the Svalbard islands (a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean), for safeguarding seeds in the event of a global crisis.

Jan 10, 2023 · Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a huge gene bank that stores seeds from all over the world. The Seed Vault is located on the arctic island Svalbard, north of mainland Norway.

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.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was established and is owned by Norway. It is operated in a unique partnership between the Norwegian Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the regional genebank NordGen and the Crop Trust, an independent international organization.

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.

Nestled deep within the permafrost of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault serves as a last-resort safeguard for the world’s agricultural biodiversity.

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. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault facilitates security conservation of seeds, comprising genetic material of importance for food and agriculture.