Africa: Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit Bolsters Food Security Amid Crises
- October 23, 2024
- Environment & Climate
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[allAfrica] Longyearbyen, Svalbard — The Svalbard Global Seed Vault received yesterday a deposit of more than 30,000 new seed samples from 23 depositors across 21 countries, including seven international genebanks. This marks the largest number of depositors since the Seed Vault received samples from a record-breaking 35 genebanks in 2020, underscoring the urgent global effort to conserve crop diversity in the face of escalating climate change, conflict, and other crises.
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