June 2025: Seed samples of cultural iconic plants from Korea, the Netherlands, and Benin are sent to the Seed Vault among seeds from 11 other countries
Longyearbyen, Norway, 3 June 2025 – Fourteen genebanks will deposit 11,206 seed samples in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week, including vegetables and traditional crops that are as important to cultural identity as they are to nutrition and resilience to climate change. The world’s largest repository of crop diversity will now house seed samples of…
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…