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CIAT's gene bank safeguards 26,500 samples of cultivated beans and 1,500 samples of wild beans.

Big boosts in rice and beans

Gains benefit poor farmers and consumers

Latin America's rice and bean production has grown with "extraordinary speed" in recent decades, bringing benefits for the millions of low-income consumers in the region who depend on this nutritious dietary duo, according to the author of a recent report by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)...

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