- 40 years of wheat breeding all in one place.
- Big Food sees the light. It says here.
- They’ll be investing in acorns next.
- They’ll have to sort out the definition of “heritage” first.
- Roiboos ABS sorted out. Acorns next?
- Saving endangered plants in genebanks.
- Stunning potato diversity travelogue culminates in visit to CIP genebank.
Nibbles: ISF & SDGs, Nutrition report, Plant blindness, Cowpea, Chefs, Ancient baking, Rotations, Blue maize, Forests & poverty, Food miles
- International Seed Federation secretary-general in podcast on seeds and the SDGs.
- Country nutrition profiles. Sobering.
- Share your plant stories on Herbaria 3.0.
- The secret history of the cowpea, from a chef: “Our peas were tiny little texts, and we didn’t even know it.”
- Speaking of chefs…
- More on that 4000-year-old baking yeast story.
- The economics of rotations.
- The economics of blue maize.
- Mapping the evidence base for the link between forests and poverty alleviation.
- Speaking of maps, here’s how food moves around the USA.
Nibbles: How-to trifecta, Indigenous maps, ITPGRFA, SeedLinked, Tequila
- The Center for Plant Conservation has Best Plant Conservation Practices to Support Species Survival in the Wild. With online forum goodness.
- A little bit down-market, there’s What Are Seed Banks: A Complete Guide.
- How Do We Preserve the Vanishing Foods of the Earth? Good question, and nice article, but there’s surely more to the answer than what it says.
- Like indigenous people.
- And the Plant Treaty. Here’s two provocative briefing papers on that from the African Centre for Biodiversity in the run-up to the Governing Body meeting in November.
- Oh, and breeding. Even crowd-sourced breeding.
- Let the tequila industry show you what to do, in fact.
Nibbles: Diversification, Watermelon lecture, Global productivity gaps, Kenyan CWR, Indian rice diversity, Native American seeds, Cool newsletters
- Value chains for baskets of products to diversify production and consumption.
- Video lecture on watermelon domestication.
- “…global agricultural productivity needs to increase at an average annual rate of 1.73 percent to sustainably produce food, feed, fiber, and bioenergy for 10 billion people in 2050.
- Maybe crop wild relatives can help? Kenyan media thinks so. This is the project in question, though you wouldn’t know it from the article.
- Somewhat one-sided account of ex situ rice conservation in India. People are looking into some of the claims…
- The Native American Seeds Protection Act of 2019 explained. Fingers crossed.
- Latest newsletters: the European PGRFA network & Genesys.
Nibbles: Forages, Zimbabwe policy, Kyrgyz nuts, Warwick vegetables, Asparagus breeder
- Brachiaria is the new Napier grass.
- Zimbabwe has a new seed conservation strategy.
- Agroforestry in Kyrgyzstan.
- Podcast on the Warwick University veggies genebank.
- Award for asparagus breeding. Somebody has to do it…