The backup copy of the world's crop diversity, opened in 2008 inside a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen. Genebanks worldwide deposit duplicate seed there against war, disaster and their own failures; the first withdrawal came in 2015, when the international genebank in Aleppo, Syria, recovered its collection through Svalbard. It holds well over a million seed samples. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founding Year HeadquartersSpitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway 1 Classification
KindGenebank or Germplasm Conservation Center 1 Connections
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Seed banks such as Svalbard conserve crop wild relative material alongside cultivated varieties.
Source Crop Wild Relative (Wikipedia)
Source Geoffrey Hawtin (Wikipedia)
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1. Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Wikipedia)
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The backup copy of the world's crop diversity, opened in 2008 inside a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen.
Crop Wild Relative (Wikipedia)
Geoffrey Hawtin (Wikipedia)
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He played key roles in the creation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the negotiation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources.
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