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In February 2008, the eyes of the world focused on a frozen mountainside on an archipelago in northern Norway – the site of the Government of Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The Vault was built to provide a backup system for storing and safeguarding samples of the world’s agricultural seeds deep inside a permafrost mountain.
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Svalbard Seed Vault 2008–2018 Anniversary
In February 2008, the eyes of the world focused on a frozen mountainside on an archipelago in northern Norway – …
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Towards a watertight access tunnel
Due to incidents of water intrusion in periods of heavy rainfall in Svalbard, the Norwegian government is now in the …
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault presented at Plant Treaty meeting in Kigali, Rwanda
Representatives from all over the world met in Kigali the first week in November for the 7th Governing Body meeting …
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ICARDA seeds safe back in Lebanon and Morocco
Due to the conflict in Syria, ICARDA in 2015 became the first gene bank to withdraw seeds from their deposit …
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The International Advisory Panel meets in February
The management of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is overseen by an International Advisory Panel. The Panel consists of representatives …
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New seeds from three gene banks in October
At this years’ last Seed Vault opening now in October, seed deposits were made by the International Center for Tropical …
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault – a new video
Way up north, in the permafrost, 1300 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, is the world’s largest secure seed storage. A …