{"id":30408,"date":"2025-02-27T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T04:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30408"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:03:42","slug":"svalbard-global-seed-vault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/svalbard-global-seed-vault\/","title":{"rendered":"Svalbard Global Seed Vault"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Svalbard Global Seed Vault Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault received more than 14,000 new seed samples.<\/p>\n<h2>About Svalbard Global Seed Vault<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the largest backup facility for the <strong>world\u2019s crop diversity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Svalbard is the <strong>Norwegian archipelago<\/strong> half way between the Northern pole and Mainland Norway.<\/li>\n<li>The Seed Vault&#8217;s objective is to <strong>safeguard as much of the world\u2019s unique crop genetic<\/strong> material as possible while also avoiding unnecessary duplication.<\/li>\n<li>It offers <strong>free-of-charge, long-term storage <\/strong>of <strong>seed <\/strong>duplicates from international, national and regional genebanks and institutions.<\/li>\n<li>The ownership of the seeds <strong>remains with the depositing genebank<\/strong>. In the Seed Vault they are stored under so-called black box conditions, meaning that only the <strong>institution that deposited the seedshas access <\/strong>and is allowed to withdraw them.<\/li>\n<li>It was set deep inside a mountain to withstand disasters from nuclear war to global warming, <strong>was launched in 2008<\/strong> as a backup for the world\u2019s gene banks that store the genetic code for thousands of plant species.<\/li>\n<li>It has the capacity to store 4.5 million varieties of crops.<\/li>\n<li>The facility serves a humanitarian purpose and is part of the international system for conserving plant genetic diversity guided by the <strong>UN organisation for Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Svalbard Global Seed Vault FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> How much does the Svalbard Seed Vault cost?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Svalbard Global Seed Vault offers safe, free-of-charge, long-term storage of duplicates of seed samples stored in the world&#8217;s genebanks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> What is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Seed Vault safeguards duplicates of 1,301,397 seed samples from almost every country globally, with room for millions more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.<\/strong> Where is the Seed Vault in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Chang La<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/arctic-doomsday-seed-vault-gets-more-than-14000-new-samples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DD NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svalbard Global Seed Vault  is the largest backup facility for the world\u2019s crop diversity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}