Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Murex from Meninx. Breeding a better bee. Menswear retailer to dabble in sustainable livestock. There was a fourth sister. A world olive collection in Spain. “If we can assume the fire pattern is as bad as the stuff we see on TV, I reckon at this very moment there is a goodly sized handful of …
The CGIAR genebanks in the limelight. My friend Ahmed Amri is a big reason for the success of the above. The dual role of genebank managers like Ahmed. Feel-good nutrition stories needed. Rosemary gets a name change. Not many people hurt. Fighting food waste through breeding. Babylonian cooking deciphered. Breadfruit (and Diane Ragone) on TV. …
Jeremy’s latest newsletter discusses a very humble wild potato species, which we have actually blogged about here on a number of previous occasions. Do subscribe, there’s other cool stuff in there. Indigenous people in the southwest of North America had more of a hand in crop domestication than is often thought, according to a new …
Vulnerability of U.S. new and industrial crop genetic resources. More germplasm (especially wild relatives) and breeders are needed in the US of castor bean, gumweed, guar, guayule, kenaf, roselle, safflower, sesame, sunn hemp, rubber dandelion and Vernonia. Safeguarding Plant Genetic Resources in the U.S. But the conservation system itself has its challenges, due to climate …
Three Decades of Safeguarding and Promoting Use of Agricultural Biodiversity: Changing Global Perspectives, Paradigm Shifts and Implications. The priorities of Bioversity and the Japanese government have changed over time, but miraculously stayed reasonably well aligned. A focused ethnographic study on the role of health and sustainability in food choice decisions. Americans pick food items mainly …