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
The World Prize Foundation announces that “Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin and Dr. Cary Fowler will receive the 2024 World Food Prize for their extraordinary leadership in preserving and protecting the world’s heritage of biodiversity and mobilizing this critical resource to defend against threats to global food security.” In 2004, Dr. Cary Fowler and Dr. Geoffery Hawtin…
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
Geir Pollestad, Minister of Agriculture and Food welcomed the seeds from the eight gene banks that deposited seeds for the first time and the 13 recurrent gene banks, together with representatives from the partners: Jaspreet Stamm, Director of External Affairs, CropTrust and Lise Lykke Steffensen, CEO, NordGen. Representatives from the Kazach gene bank, one of…
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…