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2. Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Agriculture in Svalbard - Wikipedia

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   Opened in 2008, the seed bank now contains over 750,000 different types of seeds. [9] A study has shown that the vault could preserve most major food crops' seeds for centuries. Others, some of them important grains, could possibly survive for thousands of years. [10]

4. Svalbard - Wikipedia

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   The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a seedbank to store seeds from as many of the world's crop varieties and their botanical wild relatives as possible. A cooperation between the government of Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust , the vault is cut into rock near Longyearbyen, keeping it at a natural −6 °C (21 °F) and refrigerating the ...

5. These scientists want to safeguard Earth’s species by ... - AOL

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   The idea of the lunar biorepository is inspired by the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, in Norway’s Arctic, which stores more than a million seed varieties with the aim of safeguarding crop diversity.

6. Norway to spend $13 million to upgrade 'doomsday' Arctic seed ...

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   The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is meant as a natural deep freeze to back up the world's gene banks in case of disasters, including nuclear war. Norway to spend $13 million to upgrade 'doomsday ...

7. Pair behind 'Doomsday vault,' a bank of 1.25 million seeds ...

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   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 ...

8. Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property

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   The directorate also manages the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. The agency has at any time about 200 construction projects under way, completing about 10 to 20 new structures each year. The directorate has 860 employees. The head office is situated on Bishop Gunnerus Street (Biskop Gunnerus' gate) in Oslo.

9. World Food Prize goes to 2 who helped protect vital seeds in ...

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   Two men who were instrumental in the “craziest idea anyone ever had” of creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world's agricultural diversity will be honored as the 2024 World ...