The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway offers storage facilities for duplicates of seed accessions conserved by national, regional and international genebanks, research institutes and NGOs. It thus serves as a ‘backup’ of the ex situ collections of the world. However, it is a major objective of the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food and its partners, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Nordic Genetic Resources Centre (NordGen), to strengthen the links between various conservation strategies, including in situ and on-farm conservation, and to highlight the complementarities of the various strategies. This has been done, for example, by inviting individual farmers and their organizations to present their work in official ceremonies, like for example the opening ceremony in 2008 and the 10th anniversary of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2018. In addition, storage is also offered for duplicates of unique seed accessions conserved by farming communities. Norway’s annual contribution to the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF), announced at the official opening, is also meant to highlight the importance and complementary contributions of various conservation strategies.