Networking

Nibbles: Early ag, Iberian aurochs, MusaNet, Disney tomatoes

How people used cereals before agriculture in the Fertile Crescent (roughly speaking).
Fast forward two thousand years and meet Elba, the shepherdess of Courel. And some aurochs.
Nine thousand years later, MusaNet revamps its website…
…and coconut revamps its conservation strategy.
And finally, here are some post-agricultural tomatoes.

Why bulls and cereals go together.
Finding out which old wheats go together with good bread.
How in situ and ex situ conservation can come together for olives in Catalonia.
60 maize landraces come together in a cool display.
Coming together for African yam bean, starting on 7 July.
How national genebanks and community seed banks can come together.

Panel discussion on cryopreservation in genebanks on 25 June, save the date!
Forget cryo, what about a network of European network for the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources, in cultivation and in the wild? See who is interested. And express interest yourself.
Germans launch Legacy Landscape Fund for biodiversity hotspots. European in situ PGR conservation network unavailable for comment. Let alone cryo genebanks.
I wonder if that European on-farm conservation network will include the Completer grape, ideally in a monastery.
Decolonizing coffee. Somebody want to write about religion and crops?
Using wild plants in south and southeast Asia. Maybe they need a network too.
Plant breeders say plant breeding is really important.

There’s a series of interactive workshops to gather feedback on how to measure the Global Burden of Crop Loss. I want an initiative on the Global Burden of Crop Diversity Loss though.
Soil data makes its way to Google Maps.
CONABIO has some really excellent agrobiodiversity posters and other resources. Calabazas and amaranth are just the start, so dig away on these orphan crops and others.
Speaking of digging, ancient people got high. Well there’s a shocker.
Speaking of shockers: huge literature review says researchers should get to grips with smallholders.

R package for roaming around the web and collating taxonomic information.
Cool tool for climate matching and tree restoration seed targeting in New South Wales. Probably needs more than a Nibble.
Results of webinar on ‘Implementation of Access to Plant Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS)’ in India. With video goodness.
The whole Colombian seed conservation network on one annoying website.
Those really old dates bear fruit at last. Do you remember the paper on the genetic diversity aspects?
Growing a rye landrace on a Swedish island for organically certified seed. And more.