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.

Nibbles: Give a man a chicken, Pollinator selection, Bananapocalypse redux, Red kiwi, ICARDA genebank, Dark comms, Food design, Traditional diets, Revitalizing villages, Peruvian diversity, Moving botany

Brainfood: Arabidopsis refugia, Potato diversity, Palm uses, Coffee phylogeny, Traditional harvesting, Buckwheat trends, Maize double haploids, African cattle, Endophenotype

Nibbles: Meet a breeder, Radiation breeding, Cassava IK, Banana apocalypse, Chestnut doom & gloom, Crazy grafter, Crazy recombination, Obsidian sickle, Cat rug