The maize two-step

Isn’t it great that you can get a bite-sized digest of the latest thinking about maize domestication from the horse’s mouth, via Twitter?

Thread by @LoganKistler: “We’ve been thinking a lot about maize domestication lately and I’m happy to share some new research. People started moving maize around the […]”

Fresh Nibbles

Times of India says “India needs a new doomsday seed vault.” Why not just use the current one in Svalbard?
Meanwhile, women in the Sundarban are doing it for themselves.
Maybe it’s community doomsday seed vaults that India needs?
Fiji’s cassava is facing a doomsday of its own.
Georgia — the country — is working on a documentary on crop diversity which will no doubt include their seed deposit in Svalbard.
Kenya has a pretty good community genebanks video of its own.
Nigeria is all over crop diversity. Not just once, but twice.
Coffee prices going up? Can you imagine what will happen if we don’t conserve enough of its diversity?
Want more examples of the coolness of crop diversity and its guardians? Slow Food has your back.
La Via Campesina needs to encouragement either, where “peasant seeds” and their guardians are concerned.
Even the World Economic Forum wants in on the act.
And yet the seed sector seems…reluctant?
Good job Genesys is getting faster, eh?

Published on June 2, 2025

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