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., ...

Did you have to develop new methods to clean the seed? Is it one of the longest cleaning or dormancy breaking processes? Was it the first time your species was germinated in a collection and unique ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

It’s that time of year again. Yes, the time to exchange bean seeds via the INCREASE project. Read all about it here, and get your beans ready for spring.