Category: 2025

Sudan making its first deposit amid the country’s ongoing civil war

From February 2025: More than 2,000 seed samples that were rescued from Sudan’s national gene bank are deposited in the icy chambers of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, along with 12,000 other seed samples from 22 seed banks. The seed samples include essential varieties of sorghum and pearl millet from Sudan’s seed bank, a collection…