Jeremy rides his hobby horses in his comment on my recent ride on my own: Good point, that improved varieties always depend on existing diversity yet those doing the improving seldom contribute to ...

As chance would have it, following my recent speculative foray into the possible connection between language and crop diversity, "A Sea of Islands" an essay by the great Andrea Wulf has just appeared ...

Blueberries are a great example of agriculture as high-tech industry,” argues Daniel Hulls, the boss of AgDevCo, an investment fund. Driscoll’s, an American agribusiness giant, supplies seeds to ...

I want to put up another quick post on the theme of innovative marketing of so-called "opportunity crops" in Kenyan ...

"The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene" by Blasi, Hamilton, Gray & Bowern, published in Science last month, does something I love. It complicates a standard narrative. The ...

My ex-colleagues at the Crop Trust have a very nice animation on the Genesys blog-type thing showing the progress of landrace ...

Here's the latest in my continuing series of posts on interesting approaches to marketing agricultural biodiversity here in ...

As chance would have it, following my recent speculative foray into the possible connection between language and crop diversity, “A Sea of Islands” an essay by the great Andrea Wulf 1 has just ...

…reminded me that the Amaranth Institute Symposium 2026 is coming up soon. It really is amazing the progress in the marketing and consumption of traditional vegetables that Kenyans have made in the 30 ...

The COUSIN project aims to conserve (trans situ, no less) and use crop wild relatives in Europe. That "use" part can be tough. But that doesn't stop the fine people at Aardaia. At least where aardaker ...

Ok, sure, maybe the Plant Treaty needs "enhancement," and the results of its recent Governing Body meeting may have been a tad disappointing. But its achievements are undeniable, and very well ...