Nibbles: Indian vault, Sundarban rice, Community seed banks, Fiji cassava, Georgia documentary, Kenya seed network, Nigeria mobilizes, Coffee prizes, Slow Food guardians, Peasant seed sovereignty, World Economic Forum seed pean, Seed sector shindig, Genesys acceleration

Times of India says “India needs a new doomsday seed vault.” Why not just use the one already there in Svalbard?
Meanwhile, women in the Sundarban are doing it for themselves.
Maybe it’s community doomsday seed vaults that India needs?
Fiji’s cassava is facing a doomsday of its own.
Georgia — the country — is working on a documentary on crop diversity which will no doubt include their seed deposit in Svalbard.
Kenya has a pretty good community genebanks video of its own.
Nigeria is all over crop diversity. Not just once, but twice.
Coffee prices going up? Can you imagine what will happen if we don’t conserve enough of its diversity?
Want more examples of the coolness of crop diversity and its guardians? Slow Food has your back.
La Via Campesina needs to encouragement either, where “peasant seeds” and their guardians are concerned.
Even the World Economic Forum wants in on the act.
And yet the seed sector seems…reluctant?
Good job Genesys is getting faster, eh?

Three Sisters rematriated to historical Cherokee Nation.
Native grains returning to Indigenous land in Australia too.
May need to bring back agricultural practices too, like in Peru.
Meanwhile, in India, farmers are trying to grow apples in new places. Go figure.
Anyway, seems like the IFOAM Seeds Platform might be able to help.
And genebanks too of course, like the Millennium Seed Bank.
As part of a comprehensive conservation systems, goes without saying, like in China.
Which also include climate-proof protected areas.
It worked for soybeans, after all.
Well, for now anyway…