- Jeremy gets into tomato domestication and diversity on his podcast.
- The 2021 Access to Seeds Index Insights Report is out, and includes tomatoes.
- What is the most famous place for coconut varieties?
- A new book attempts to decolonize the peanut.
- Blood and water in Spain.
- A tale of two genebanks: China and Nigeria. Maybe the African Union can help? If not, maybe China might.
- Africa needs help with tree planting too. Maybe follow Italy’s example?
- Though maybe sorghum and millet will be ok.
- Send them to Iraqi farmers?
- Presentations on seed conservation and use in genebanks.
Nibbles: Genebanks and CC, Use of genebanks, Wild potatoes, Potato evaluation, TLB breeding, Canadian tree genebank
- Climate change is sending people to genebanks…
- …and leading to their holdings being used in lots of different and interesting ways.
- Collections of wild potatoes will surely be very useful…
- …for projects such a this, for example.
- And there’s also taro leaf blight to see to…
- …as well as trees important to Indigenous people to be conserved.
Nibbles: American single malt, Gauguin’s coconut, World Seed Congress, Red gold, Kunming
- Will American single malt whiskey be a thing? Depends on the American barley.
- Is the fruit in Paul Gauguin’s Eü haere ia oe (Woman Holding a Fruit) a coconut? Have your say.
- Will the World Seed Congress sow a brilliant future? We shall see.
- Is the oil palm over in West Africa? Depends.
- Where are we with that post-2020 biodiversity deal? Nowhere much yet.
Nibbles: Genebanks galore
- A genebank in a California botanic garden.
- A genebank at a university in Georgia.
- A genebank at a university in Wisconsin.
- Genebanks in the CGIAR
- But will all this diversity scale?
Nibbles: Future Seeds, Irish Seed Savers, ICRAF genebank, Cherry blossoms, Coffee futures, Eat This Newsletter
- More on how Future Seeds fits into the global system of genebanks. And more still.
- You can immerse yourself in the Irish Seed Savers genebank.
- Do you want chips with your tree genebank?
- There’s a sort of cherry blossom genebank in the Smithsonian Gardens.
- The Economist fails to mention genebanks in its piece on how to save coffee from climate change. Here’s an EU project that’s using coffee diversity for adaptation.
- Jeremy’s latest newsletter looks at everything from the denazification of cattle to yams. But not genebanks. Subscribe anyway!