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 ...

"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 ...