Nibbles: Genebanks in South Africa, Ethiopia, Cherokee Nation, China, India, The Netherlands…

South Africa ratifies the Plant Treaty. Hope its genebank goes from strength to strength.
Ethiopia ratified a long time ago, and its genebank is going strong.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the Cherokee Nation could ratify the Plant Treaty?
Want to build a community genebank like the Cherokee Nation’s? Here’s a resource.
China hasn’t ratified, but that hasn’t stopped it building genebanks.
And using their contents, presumably.
India has ratified, and is also building genebanks.
The Netherlands ratified long ago, but I’m not sure if it has a water lentil (duckweed) collection, or if it does whether it’s in the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System. But maybe it will, and it will be, soon. I hope so.
The Dutch also have an animal genebank, BTW.
Watermelons are not in the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System, but maybe they should be.
Neither is Trigonella, though many other temperate legume forages are, so who knows.

South Africa ratifies the Plant Treaty. Hope its genebank goes from strength to strength.
Ethiopia ratified a long time ago, and its genebank is going strong.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the Cherokee Nation could ratify the Plant Treaty?
Want to build a community genebank like the Cherokee Nation’s? Here’s a resource.
China hasn’t ratified, but that hasn’t stopped it building genebanks.
And using their contents, presumably.
India has ratified, and is also building genebanks.
The Netherlands ratified long ago, but I’m not sure if it has a water lentil (duckweed) collection, or if it does whether it’s in the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System. But maybe it will, and it will be, soon. I hope so.
The Dutch also have an animal genebank, BTW.
Watermelons are not in the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System, but maybe they should be.
Neither is Trigonella, though many other temperate legume forages are, so who knows.