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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. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides ...
The two men behind the so-called “Doomsday vault” holding 1.25 million seed samples ― seeds that can be used to rebuild much the world's food supply if catastrophe hits ― are this year’s ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, set deep inside a mountain to withstand disasters from nuclear war to global warming, was launched in 2008 as a backup for the world's gene banks that store the ...
[5] [6] The archive facility is on Spitsbergen, the biggest island in Svalbard. [7] The facility is a large steel vault [7] located somewhere between 150 metres (490 ft) [5] and 300 metres (980 ft) below the ground or permafrost [7] [4] inside an abandoned coal mine (Store Norske Gruve 3) that reaches over 300 metres (980 ft) into the side of a ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, on Spitsbergen island halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, is only opened a few times a year to limit its seed banks' exposure to the outside world.
The Crop Trust joined the Government of Norway and the Nordic Gene Bank in the 2008 establishment of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a "fail-safe" facility located at Svalbard, Norway. [23] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is hidden approximately 400 feet deep inside a mountain on a remote island between mainland Norway and the North Pole.
Gene banks are present all over the world, with differing objectives and resources. One of the largest is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. [1] [2] The database of the largest gene banks in the world can be queried via a common website, Genesys. A number of global gene banks are coordinated by the CGIAR Genebank Platform