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Important job opening at USDA running the Ames Plant Introduction Station. 50,000 accessions, people.
Online database on the effectiveness of protected areas.
100-year seed experiment kicks off.
Towards more sustainable sugarcane in India. Spoiler alert: juice, not molasses.
The Neolithic temples of Malta were used to worship food.
The “fish pepper” of Black Chesapeake homegardens lost, and found..
News clip on the USDA central genebank at Ft Collins.
Invest 50 mins in learning about eucalypts.

Training courses on multilateral environmental agreements, including CBD and Plant Treaty.
CGIAR dashboard on the Genebank Platform. More data here.
Some of the above are included in this list of the world’s most high profile genebanks.
The latest spatial crop data from CGIAR. Useful for genebanks, among other things.
Protecting fruit intellectual property. Wait, that didn’t come out right.
I guess this fruit is next.
Sikkim’s agricultural diversity as colours on a palette.
Lavender is a nice colour, whether in France or Bulgaria.
Book on nation-building through agricultural biodiversity. Bulgarians unavailable for comment.
Poppy diversity being helped by solar panels to build something or other in Afghanistan.
Palestinian paean to the bitinjan. Jeremy goes to town on it in his latest newsletter.

Coconut oil is the new palm oil? And not in a good way.
The cost of poor diets is considerable.
Maize plants call natural enemies for help against stemborers. And there’s variation in how well they do it, natch.
Fortune’s fortune: the colonization of tea. With added poison. And capitalism.
The Oxford Food Symposium is on, virtually. Registration is closed, but follow on the blog, social media etc.
Criticism of the Green Revolution approach to African agricultural development.
Forages, from genebanks to farmers, in one interactive infographic.
Saving Sangiovese through gene editing: the infographic. Not interactive, though, alas.
How FAO keeps track of progress on the SDGs.
How to not be a racist in the plant sciences.

Dr Sandy Knapp on botanical monographs. Solanum, of course.
Dr Joukje Buiteveld on fruit field genebanks in the Netherlands.
NordGen adopts GRIN-Global.
Hybrid pigeonpa in the Indian news.
All the tea in India. And Ireland?
The rise of craft chocolate.
And here’s the beverage trifecta: coffee in Ethiopia.
Seed collecting in Brazil for reforestation.
NBPGR does medicinals.
You wanna be a “germplasm acquisition coordinator“? I bet you do. But watch out…
Podcast on cattle domestication. Dr Hans Lenstra from Utrecht University in the hot seat.

Seawater is the next water.
EMBRAPA’s booklets on “unconventional” vegetables.
Money should put its money where its money is.
Kids make genebank.
Malta makes genebank.
Native Americans used to smoke unusual tobacco species, and non-tobacco species too for that matter.