Digital Tools for Planning and Managing Forest Restoration" webinar a few weeks ago, jointly organized by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, the Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal ...

Speaking of digital imagery and its uses in genebanks, get a load of the recently published catalogues of the Cuban sweet ...

For decades, germplasm characterization has relied on people looking at plants, seeds and fruits and recording what they see; first on paper forms, more recently admittedly on tablets and the like.

For decades, germplasm characterization has relied on people looking at plants, seeds and fruits and recording what they see; first on paper forms, more recently admittedly on tablets and the like.

In the latest Eat This Newsletter I shared this item, which may be relevant here too. There’s no shortage of advice that we should all eat more vegetables. They are undoubtedly good for long-term ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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

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 supermarkets. Yesterday it was nicely packaged frozen amaranth leaves that struck me ...