Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Safeguarding Seeds for the Future
We offer safe, free and long-term storage of seed duplicates from all genebanks and nations participating in the global community’s joint effort to ensure the world’s future food supply.
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault – Theme for World Food Prize 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
Welcome to the new seedvault.no
Photo: The Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food
For Depositors
The Norwegian government invites gene banks holding long-term and sustainable seed collections to deposit duplicates of their seed samples in Svalbard Global Seed Vault free of charge.
For the General Public
Here you can find out what the Seed Vault looks like inside, as well as get more information about where the seed in the Seed Vault comes from, and what significance the seeds have.
