Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
What’s that you say? You don’t have time to slog through dozens of pages of text, diagrams, tables and supplementary materials on genetic erosion? Ok, then, have you got time to listen to lead author Colin Khoury talk about the paper in question for an hour or so? Of course you do. This is just …
Great to see young guns Sean Hoban and Colin Khoury being interviewed by Emily Henderson on why genetic diversity is important and therefore why — and how — we should save it. Their latest paper came out last month: Hoban et al. (2021) Global commitments to conserving genetic diversity are now necessary and feasible. Bioscience …
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A big thank you to Colin Khoury, Julian Ramirez, Chrystian Sosa, and Dan Carver for this guest post, reminding us of the history of conservation gap analysis work at CIAT and other CGIAR centres during the past decade and more. Maps have helped people find their way for at least 2500 years, so it’s no …
Our friend and occasional contributor Colin Khoury has made a “project” on iNaturalist focusing on the crop wild relatives found in the USA. iNaturalist collates and manages citizen science observations of living things, with a machine learning algorithm helping with species identification. If the observation you document on your phone app gets verified by two …
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Innovations for sustainable food systems: genebanks are in there but frankly I find the whole thing a bit problematic. Just gonna leave that there. Feel free to comment here. Colin Khoury’s backstory. Also some CWR. The fight against pathogens. Of plants, settle down. Better Napier grass is good for everyone. Including the cows. But wait, …
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