Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
A Pavlovsk-like situation may be developing in Côte d’Ivoire. There have been rumours circulating for some months that the Marc Delorme Research Station of the Centre national de recherche agronomique (CNRA), home to one of the major coconut genebanks of the world, was threatened with redevelopment. Well, things have just got real. A representative of …
We’re delighted to publish today a guest post from Gabi Everett. Gabi is an MSc student in Cristobal Uauy’s research group at the John Innes Centre. We hope this is the first of many contributions from her. Until the next one, though, you can follow her on Twitter. I’ve never been one to listen much …
If there was ever any doubt about the future of the UK’s vegetables genebank at Wellesbourne, this should settle it: Warwick Crop Centre at the University of Warwick has won a five year contract from Defra to continue to host the UK Vegetable Genebank at the University’s Wellesbourne Campus. Good news, as far as it …
Is there a Pavlovsk situation brewing in Lima? ((For new readers, The Pavlovsk Experiment Station, outside St Petersburg, was established by NI Vavilov to house parts of the massive collection of agricultural biodiversity his institute amassed. It has been under threat from developers and politicians for more than 3 years now, and it’s future is …
Readers with a long(ish) memory may remember some uncertainty a couple of years back over the future of the UK’s national collections of vegetable diversity at Wellesbourne. I’m glad to say the genebank is flourishing as part of Warwick University, with funding from Defra. It even has a Twitter feed, over which there is currently …