Brainfood: Slow Food, Runner bean diversity, Bamboo diversity, Istrian grapes, Smelly cheeses, Wild pseudocereals, Diversity & phenology, VAM diversity, Oases apocalypse, Wild wheat physiology, PepperHub, Bactrian camel diversity, Swiss livestock, CWR conservation, Tree database

Nibbles: Viking dope, Garden survey, Ancient olive press, Proposal writing, Nice figures, Old garden books, Chestnuts, Cannibalism, Saving coffee, Vanilla history, Seed book, Spanish brassica

Nibbles: Mango genebank, Japanese elite fruit, Mother Hass, African cattle diversity, New wild ginger, Seed saving, False ivory, ABS, Deforestation, Blight causes, Desert ag, Conserving potatoes, Imperial botany

Nibbles: Chocolate & deforestation, Sweet potato breeding, Diversification, Aurochs redux, Flower viewing, Saharan history, CeCaCT

  • Chocolate makers decide to go green. How about conserving the genetic resources of the crop, though?
  • “Being a crop breeder in the modern world sometimes feels like being a fire fighter equipped with a very slow truck.”
  • UNDP supports agricultural diversification.
  • Reconstructing the aurochs.
  • We could all do with some hanami. And a hug.
  • Livestock keeping caused the Sahara?
  • President of Fiji visits regional genebank. Cue photo of people peering at test tubes.