Svalbard Seed Vault Reaches Milestone with Million Seeds Deposited Securing Global Food Future and Climate Resilience

Svalbard Seed Vault Reaches Milestone with Million Seeds Deposited Securing Global Food Future and Climate Resilience

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Listeners. There has been a surge of fascinating news surrounding
the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, or the Doomsday Vault. Located
deep in the Arctic permafrost on a remote Norwegian archipelago.
This facility, built as the world's failsafe seed storage center,
continues to make global headlines for its crucial role in
conserving our agricultural future. Very recently, this sfalbarred Seed Vault

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made history thanks to a major deposit by the Center
for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry known as sefoor Icraft.
In February this year, they delivered one hundred twenty thousand
seeds from thirteen native African tree species, including the celebrated bowbab,
which pushed their total deposits past the one million mark.

(00:46):
The collection now includes one point one million seeds from
one hundred seventy seven species, securing essential genetic diversity for
food security and reforestation projects. According to siphor Icraft's Chief
executive Alien Ubiligiro, this milestone is about more than just
conserving seeds. She described it as a pivotal moment that

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strengthens both ecological resilience and the livelihoods of communities facing
a changing climate. The African Baobob, sometimes called the Tree
of Life, features in this shipment and is pivotal for nutrition,
local economies and medicine throughout the continent. In late August,
the Danish Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Jacob Jensen,

(01:32):
made a high profile visit to the seed vault. He
participated in preparations for a new shipment of seeds from
the Nordic Genebank nord Gen for a notable October deposit.
Nineteen of these samples will be of Danish origin, covering
wild carrots, lingenberries, and cultivated crops such as turnips and
perennial rye grass. Overall, Denmark now has more than four thousand,

(01:56):
six hundred seed samples safeguarded at Svalbard, representing two hundred
forty one different plant species. The minister highlighted ongoing collaboration
across the Nordic region, especially in a time he described
as turbulent, saying it was reassuring to know part of
the region's heritage is stored so securely. Listeners might find

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it interesting that inside the stalbarred seed Vault, two groundbreaking
long term experiments are underway, as described by Nordgen's executive
director leeen Akrol Anderson, one experiment has monitored seed viability
for key Nordic crops since nineteen eighty six in the
region's permafrost, while the second study, located directly in the

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Seed Vault itself, focuses on fourteen globally important crops. Germination
tests are conducted over several decades, making these trials unique
and valuable for the global scientific community. These studies are
crucial because they generate real data on how different seeds
survive in the kind of deep freeze that the Sfalbard

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facility provides. Just last week, Good Morning America reported on
the continued expansion of the vault's contents, including the arrival
of rice seed samples from Africa's largest rice gene bag.
The samples were shipped from Africa Rice in Cote Devoir
via Oslo as part of a drive to conserve African
rice diversity in perpetuity for future generations of scientists. Nordic

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forest tree seeds, including Norway spruce and Scott's pine have
also been selected and placed in Svaalbard for both conservation
purposes and ongoing genetic and breeding studies. On the funding side,
there is significant news for crop diversity across Africa. According
to the Crop Trust, over thirty five million African rice

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farmers will benefit from a new long term finance agreement
secured for the Africa Rice Gene Bank. This Cote de
Voir based resource is the continent's largest rice collection and
will use artificial intelligence to keep track of seed health
and improve access for researchers and breeders who are developing
higher yielding and climate resilient diversity rice varieties. Even pop

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culture has played a part in recent small barred stories.
News eighteen covered how Oreo Cookies now have their own
bunker just down the road from the famous seed Vault.
This pr stunt began after a NASA social media post
about a harmless asteroid, sparking a tongue in cheek campaign
to keep the world's most famous cookies safe with mylar

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packaging and climate controlled protection from major new seed deposits,
and pioneering longevity experiments to pop culture tie ins and
strengthen food security partnerships. The sfalbarred Global Seed Vault continues
to cement its reputation as a symbol of planetary resilience
and agricultural hope. Thank you listeners for tuning in, and

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be sure to return next week for more on the
world's most vital food security stories.