Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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svalbard-global-seed-vault-208-2442440
title:
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
text:
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides security of the world's food supply against the loss of seeds in genebanks due to mismanagement, accident, equipment failures, funding cuts, war, sabotage, disease, and natural disasters. The Seed Vau
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Globally accessible seed bank on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
date created:
2006-01-14T16:20:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T08:37:10Z
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