Nibbles: Cayman coconuts, Wild beans, Breeding Bambara, Aussie genebank, UAE law, EBI, Amazonian ag

  1. The Cayman Islands bets on a genebank of coconut diversity.
  2. The Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT’s genebank bets on growth cabinets to save picky wild bean.
  3. IITA bets on stakeholders to build a better Bambara groundnut. And its genebank, presumably.
  4. The Australian Seed Bank Partnership bets on, well, seeds.
  5. The UAE bets on a PGRFA law.
  6. Ethiopia bet on a national genebank 50 years ago.
  7. People have been betting on the chagra in the Amazon for 4,500 years.

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