Jeremy's latest newsletter has agrobiodiversity-adjacent snippets on the re-making of an ancient bread in Turkey and on the "oenification of olive oil." Plus a thing on oysters which is maybe not so ...

I recently came across two interesting resources that I'd like to share. Bangor University has published a handbook that might be useful to people doing research in in situ conservation: Ibbett, H., ...

I am conscious I may not have referred to the Third International Agrobiodiversity Congress too much since it was originally ...

Every once in a while a new dam dataset crops up. Dam, not damn. Well, maybe damn as well. Anyway, when that happens, I feel compelled to mash it up with accession locality data. Because if I don’t do ...

At the International Congress of Genetics in New Delhi in 1983, I stressed the need for a conservation continuum, beginning with revitalizing conservation of domesticated plants by farm families in ...

I seem to be doing little more these days that quoting Jeremy’s latest Eat This Newsletter. I was actually going to include the paper Adoption of improved crop varieties limited biodiversity losses, ...

Jeremy tackles superfood in his latest newsletter. Do subscribe. The ultimate expression of food as medicine is the search for active ingredients. Why go to the bother of eating broccoli or Brussels ...

Prabhu Pingali sets out the nutrition case for crop-neutral agricultural policy in an interview at Asterisk. There’s a lot more talk about nutrition-sensitive agriculture and a lot more pronouncements ...

The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has a small grants program and I hear they are looking for more applications targeting crop wild relatives. The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation ...

Jeremy was thrilled — thrilled I tell you — at some recent news from Irish Seed Savers Association. And, frankly, so was I. It’s all in his latest newsletter. Thrilled to see that the apple juice ...

The genebank of the International Livestock Research Institute in Addis Ababa is 40 years old. There’s an online celebration tomorrow. See you there. Photo credit: Shawn Landersz, Consultant at The ...