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There’s a wave of groundwork being laid — genomic, cultural, and geospatial — for opportunity crops, but the governance, disease-pressure, market and environmental constraints that marginalized them in the first place are still very much active, and in some cases actively winning.
- Constraints on crop diversification under drought: Multi-scale evidence from California’s San Joaquin Valley. Consolidation, land tenure and water access limits farmers’ ability to switch crops.
- Fragmented urban food governance and impacts on the marginalisation of indigenous crops in Ghana. City plans sideline indigenous crops, and communities pay the price.
- Full Genome Characterization of the Causal Virus of Yellow Mosaic Disease in Mungbean Minicore Accessions. Technical barriers block the path from potential to harvest.
- Capsicum pubescens Ruiz & Pav.: evolutionary history, domestication, genetic resources and future opportunities for an overlooked Andean crop. Genomic evidence reveals substantial diversity in this overlooked Andean pepper but also major conservation gaps, particularly in Bolivia, highlighting opportunities for both crop improvement and biocultural conservation.
- Bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia (L.) Willd.): current research advances and future perspectives for a neglected legume crop. It was dropped because of anti-nutritional quirks, but should, and could, return for marginal lands.
- Genetic characterization of a global collection of common buckwheat to harness genetic resources for agricultural diversity. Hidden diversity is still out there.
- Genotype-by-sequencing of global hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus) collections provides genomic resources for crop conservation and improvement. Diversity survives in farmer fields and genebanks.
- Wild Edible Greens Heritage in Western Crete and Its Resilience Across Greek Islands: The Role of Small-Scale Farming, Biodiversity, and Isolation. Small-scale farming sustains knowledge of wild edible greens across Greek islands, showing that opportunity crops depend on living farming cultures.
- African Crop Calendar: A geo-referenced dataset of crop growing seasons across diverse agro-ecological regions. Where (or should that be when) alternative crops might fit within agricultural systems.