Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
I can’t find anything online about the results of the regional Breadfruit Biocultural Conservation Knowledge Exchange Workshop organized by the Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PFO) at the Tutu Rural Training Centre in Fiji from 27–29 April 2026. Beyond social media posts, that is. But I really like the idea of participants sharing the breadfruit …
King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and… …Cate Blanchett. Or read about it in The Economist. Or watch a nice video. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers. How to get stuff out of the …
Jeremy’s latest Eat This Newsletter has a piece on Dumbarton Oaks’ Plant of the Month feature on breadfruit. And much else besides. Do have a look. In contrast to Jeremy, I myself have knowingly eaten breadfruit, in various forms. It makes pretty good chips. I’ve also blogged about it here — a lot. Breadfruit’s Bounty …
Last week’s The Economist has a nice piece in its Graphic Detail section on how climate change is affecting yields of some crops so much that farmers in many parts of the world will be increasingly tempted — if not compelled — to switch to different crops. Even if more climate-resilient varieties of the crops …
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Rules for tree planting. Where those trees will have to come from: thousands of seed banks. Not if the tree is breadfruit, but that’s ok, there’s other ways to conserve the stuff. The impact of a single seed bank on rice improvement measured. The impact of Irish seed banks recognized. No need for genebanks to …