- Genebanks, crop wild relatives, friends, even a cool title — this one has it all: The New Potato.
- Latest on the CATIE seed collection.
- The wonder of Ethiopian food.
- Which I guess can include teff again now.
- Digitizing the Smithsonian — fast.
- George Washington Carver celebrated.
- Oh look, there’s a new version of SPAM. Let the GISsing begin.
New Potato: This still attempts to blame the Convention on Biological Diversity for reducing collecting. It didn’t. It was the NGO `Biopiracy’ campaign. I’ll hazard a bet that the current funding for CWR collecting will garner less that one tenth the number of new collections compared to existing CWR sample. Any takers?
Neither the CBD nor Dave’s NGO conspiracy (and NGOs were highly active in the Philippines) stopped us organizing a rice collecting program (cultivated and wild) in more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America between 1995 and 2000. Samples safely duplicated in the International Rice Genebank at IRRI.