October 2024: Arrival of more than 30,000 new seeds – A continuation of global efforts to conserve diversity in the face of escalating climate change, conflict and other crises
LONGYEARBYEN, SVALBARD — October, 2024 — The Svalbard Global Seed Vault received on 22 October 2024 a deposit of more than 30,000 new seed samples from 23 depositors across 21 countries, including seven international genebanks. This deposit is underscoring the urgent global effort to conserve crop diversity in the face of escalating climate change, conflict and other crises.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault – Theme for World Food Prize 2024
Two major contributors to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault win the World Food Prize for 2024.
February 2024: Norwegian Minister of Agriculture and Food welcomes the largest number of new gene banks depositing seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault since its opening in 2008
Despite swirling and blowing snow on the mountainside where the seed vault is located, boxes containing more than 12,000 new seed samples safely entered the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on February 27, 2024.
Welcome to the new seedvault.no
The Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food proudly presents the new seedvault.no, a dynamic online platform with an emphasis on videos dedicated to educate and enlighten our global audience about food security and environmental sustainability. Inspired by the crucial role of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in preserving global crop diversity, this website offers a…