WHAT´S THE NORWAY SEED VAULT?. HOW DO THE SVALBARD GLOBAL SEEDS WORK?
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located in Norway, on an island of the Artic Circle. The vault stores 500 seeds for each of the nearly one million crops it holds so far, with the goal of collecting seeds from 4.5 million crop varities. The vault is designed to keep seeds, the source of the planet´s food, secure despite climate change and natural or human-made disasters.