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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a long-term safety backup for the world’s crop diversity. Carved into the solid rock of the Plateau Mountain, the Seed Vault stores more than one million seed samples from genebanks around the world. The storage is free of charge, ownership of the seeds remains with the depositor and all seeds are sealed under black box conditions.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is owned by Norway and managed in a partnership between the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the regional genebank NordGen and the international organization Crop Trust. Read more about us at www.seedvault.no