- Sorghum and millet breeder honoured in Zimbabwe. Always good to see.
- Germplasm evaluation efforts of Indian national genebank make it into the mainstream financial press. Also very good to see.
- Zambian national genebank does some much-needed safety duplication. More good news.
- Possibly good news, hard to say: Russian news agency on what seems to be a new wild rice genebank in China.
- Always good news to see two countries agree to collaborate on genetic resources.
- Manchester viaduct gets a greenlift. Good to see it, despite no genebanks being involved.
Nibbles: Chinese crop diversity, Reforestation, Seed swapping, Biofortification
- China does a census of crop diversity for its genebank.
- Getting birds to help replant forests in early modern Japan.
- Swapping seeds in Bristol.
- The complementary roles of fortification and biofortification.
Nibbles: Wild coffee, Humble potato, Banana seeds video, Citizen Bean, Svalbard, Microlivestock, Transhumance, Exotic tea, BIPOC heirlooms
- The Food Programme does coffee wild relatives.
- Potatoes are not that bad nutritionally.
- Getting banana seeds.
- Want to do citizen science with beans?
- The latest from Svalbard.
- Bugs again?
- Counting sheep.
- Weird tea is the best tea. But any tea will do in a pinch.
- BIPOC communities saving heirloom seeds.
Nibbles: Agroforestry app, Virtual grazing areas, Tunisian herbalists, India agrobiodiversity
- An app to help farmers choose agroforestry species in India.
- An app to keep cows on the straight and narrow in Epping Forest.
- The herbalists of Tunis could maybe do with an app.
- There’s no app to stop agrobiodiversity loss. Even in India.
Nibbles: Food flows, Olive collection, Sweet potato breeding, Global Bean Project, Open Source Plant Breeding, Saladino book
- You can explore food flows among US counties. If you have lots of time.
- Studying a huge olive collection. To fight climate change.
- Improving sweet potatoes in Cambodia. Somehow.
- There’s a meeting of the Global Bean Project. Tomorrow.
- Speaking of sweet potatoes and crowd-sourced breeding (well, sort of). The Open Source Plant Breeding Forum.
- Apparently there’s nobody talking about the food extinction crisis. Nobody.