- Goa to set up a mango genebank. Where do I donate?
- The murky world of really expensive Japanese fruit.
- What is this one avocado tree worth?
- The importance of indigenous African cattle breeds.
- You can never have too many wild ginger species.
- Saving seeds in South Carolina.
- Seeds save elephants.
- IFPRI meeting discusses the increasing complexity of germplasm access and benefit sharing.
- Food giants look to their greenify their value chains. Will they finally decide to secure their genetic base too?
- Irish potato famine: don’t blame the near-fungus.
- Chinese oasis is engineering wonder: and the crops?
- Pachamama and the ever-so-humble potato.
- Review of book on the imperial origins of botany.
IFPRI Meeting: no meeting report yet. But the comment says germplasm flows in danger from: “…the result of unintended consequences from the global treaties …”. They were not unintended consequences. The Plant Treaty was a botched job and was always going to be so, as I repeatedly pointed out to everyone the their dog, including a trip to Beltsville at my own expense to tell USDA what was going to happen (as it then did). The US wanted the treaty too much, to reverse the CBD acceptance of national sovereignty over everything. Out of the frying pan into the fire.