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Deep inside a mountain on Norway's Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 km (800 miles) from the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault keeps backup copies of the world's crop…
It opened in 2008 and is run by Norway's government, the Crop Trust and NordGen.
From 2008 to 2014, ICARDA (the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas) sent 116,484 duplicate seed samples there from its genebank in Aleppo, Syria, a…