svalbard global seed vault

14,000+ Crop Seeds Added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault for Preservation

14,000+ Crop Seeds Added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault for Preservation

More than 14,000 seed samples are headed for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week, where they’ll be preserved and protected against climate change, war, and other events that can threaten crops and plant diversity. The latest addition of 14,022 seed samples come from 21 different genebanks around the world, and the latest deposit will […]

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    50,000 Seeds Deposited to ‘Doomsday Vault’ Housing World’s Largest Collection of Crop Diversity

    50,000 Seeds Deposited to ‘Doomsday Vault’ Housing World’s Largest Collection of Crop Diversity

    A major seed deposit critical to ensuring global food security was made to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle on Wednesday. Despite a backdrop of geopolitical volatility, nearly 50,000 samples of seeds from seed collections in Benin, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, the U.S, Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and the […]