The Nordic Gene Bank (NordGen) operates the facility and maintains a publicly accessible online database of samples stored in the seed vault. The Global Crop Diversity Trust provides support for its ongoing operations and funding for the preparation and shipment of seeds from developing countries to the facility. The Seed Vault is owned and administered by the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food on behalf of the Kingdom of Norway and is established as a service to the world community. In 2015, seeds from Syria became the first seeds to be withdrawn from the vault. They were sent to Morocco and Lebanon so that Syrian agricultural researchers could continue their work. In the event of a regional or global catastrophe, valuable seeds can be recovered. It is essentially a back-up facility, holding duplicates of deposits found in the approximately 1,400 gene banks in more than 100 countries around the world. The seed vault offers “fail-safe” protection for one of the most important natural resources on earth. The purpose of the building is to provide insurance against both incremental and catastrophic loss of crop diversity held in traditional seed banks around the world. The vault represents the world’s largest collection of crop diversity, and includes wheat, barley, potatoes and almost 150,000 varieties of rice.
The impressive facility is a fail-safe seed storage centre, built to stand the test of time and meet the challenge of natural or man-made disasters. Discover the world's doomsday vaults for seeds and data.ĭeep inside the remote Platåberget mountain on the Svalbard archipelago lies the Global Seed Vault. Photo: Crop TrustĪ worldwide insurance policy for humanity is buried in Arctic Norway.
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