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Latest from Svalbard Global Seed Vault

📰 Update · 2w

Thousands of Seeds Deposited in Svalbard as Global Cooperation Safeguards Food Security

📰 Update · Jun 18

Svalbard Global Seed Vault Crosses Major Milestone – 1.4 Million Seed Samples Secured

📰 Update · Mar 2

New Countries and a New Crop Mark FirstSeed Vault Deposit of 2026

📰 Update · Oct 22

Celebration Meets Urgency at Latest Seed Vault Opening in Svalbard

📰 Update · Jun 5

June 2025: Seed samples of cultural iconic plants from Korea, the Netherlands, and Benin are sent to the Seed Vault among seeds from 11 other countries

📰 Update · Mar 5

Sudan making its first deposit amid the country’s ongoing civil war

📰 Update · Oct 24

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

📰 Update · May 10

Svalbard Global Seed Vault – Theme for World Food Prize 2024

The Backup Copy of Agriculture, Kept Frozen in a Mountain

Food & Farming

🇸🇯 Svalbard and Jan Mayen

A tunnel driven into permafrost on an Arctic island holds a spare copy of the crops the world eats, in case a war or a flood takes the original.

1.4MsamplesSeed samples stored
134depositorsDepositing genebanks
6,539speciesSpecies represented
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