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Non-Wood Forest Products

The new NWFP-Digest is out.

Biofuels blog

A whole blog on “low-input, high-diversity” biofuels.

Report on biofuels

GRAIN’s report on biofuels is generating lots of heat.

IITA cores its yams

A core collection has been identified for West African yams.

June 28, 2007August 11, 2009

Cattle and biodiversity

Cattle grazing sustains plant diversity in Dutch dune ecosystems.

1. Times of India says “India needs a new doomsday seed vault.” Why not just use the one already there in Svalbard?
2. Meanwhile, women in the Sundarban are doing it for themselves.
3. Maybe it’s community doomsday seed vaults that India needs?
4. Fiji’s cassava is facing a doomsday of its own.
5. Georgia — the country — is working on a documentary on crop diversity which will no doubt include their seed deposit in Svalbard.
6. Kenya has a pretty good community genebanks video of its own.
7. Nigeria is all over crop diversity. Not just once, but twice.
8. Coffee prices going up? Can you imagine what will happen if we don’t conserve enough of its diversity?
9. Want more examples of the coolness of crop diversity and its guardians? Slow Food has your back.
10. La Via Campesina needs to encouragement either, where “peasant seeds” and their guardians are concerned.
11. Even the World Economic Forum wants in on the act.
12. And yet the seed sector seems…reluctant?
13. Good job Genesys is getting faster, eh?
Published on June 2, 2025