Inside Svalbard: where the world’s seeds are preserved
One of the most remote locations in the world, Svalbard’s Seed Vault safeguards global food security by storing 1.4 million seed samples Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, roughly halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Home to about 2,900 people from more than 50 nationalities,…
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Inside Svalbard: where the world’s seeds are preserved
One of the most remote locations in the world, Svalbard’s Seed Vault safeguards global food security by storing 1.4 million seed samples Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, roughly halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Home to about 2,900 people from more than 50 nationalities, it has been under Norwegian sovereignty since the 1920 Svalbard Treaty. Before then, the islands were an international commons used…
