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., ...

If you run a genebank and are struggling to manage your data, you might want to consider a piece of nifty software called GRIN-Global Community Edition. And not least because there are some great ...

We are pleased to announce the international course on “Sustainable Food Production”. It will be hosted at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice (Italy), July 10th ...

It might be because we happen to be doing something on the coffee diversity conservation strategy at work, but I have been noticing a lot of joe-related material online lately. There’s the bit on ...

A bit of a roundup of data stuff today. Things have been piling up in my to-blog folder, and the time has come to tidy up.

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 ...

Thanks to Christian Bunn for throwing some shade on the work underlying the map of putative changes in coffee suitability that I so blithely shared yesterday. Maps can be both pretty and also the ...

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, ...

NordGen is running a great series of weekly webinars on crop wild relatives conservation. You can find recordings of the past three on their website, but I can’t figure out how to sign up for future ...

Well, it’s all over now, and very moving it was too. You can read about the 2024 World Food Prize laureates here, and also watch edited highlights of the ceremony. Wonderful to see Cary and Geoff — ...

Is Xylella — cause of the olive plague that has been stalking southern Europe for a decade — a blessing in disguise for the Salento? Jeremy asks the hard questions in his latest Eat This Podcast.