Where are we with the whole enhancing the functioning of the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System thing? I’m glad you asked. You’ll remember that… [h]istorically, parties have been divided between ...

Sad to report that two giants of our field have passed on. Dr Melaku Worede helped establish the national genebank of Ethiopia in 1976 and led it for 14 years. He was a champion for the equal ...

Great to see a couple of my former bosses recognized for their exceptional contributions to the conservation of crop diversity. I like this quote from Geoff: This is really a chance to get that ...

I seem to be doing little more these days that quoting Jeremy's latest Eat This Newsletter. I was actually going to include the paper Adoption of improved crop varieties limited biodiversity losses, ...

Jeremy's latest newsletter is out, and has a nice piece on disobedience of the rules of the EU's Common Catalogue. Little seed has its say The motto of the European Union on agricultural diversity, ...

Jeremy's latest newsletter discusses a very humble wild potato species, which we have actually blogged about here on a number of previous occasions. Do subscribe, there's other cool stuff in there.

Good question. The answer? It's all part of a very nice exhibit at the Museum Koenig in Bonn on biodiversity research. Great to see agricultural research get a look-in. But pity there was nothing on ...

Jeremy was thrilled -- thrilled I tell you -- at some recent news from Irish Seed Savers Association. And, frankly, so was I. It's all in his latest newsletter. Thrilled to see that the apple juice ...

Wait, what? Against biofortification? What can possibly be the case against breeding staple crops to have higher concentrations of micronutrients? How can you argue against making wheat or beans more ...

Thanks to Christian Bunn for throwing some shade on the work underlying the map of putative changes in coffee suitability that I so blithely shared yesterday. Maps can be both pretty and also the ...

The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has a small grants program and I hear they are looking for more applications targeting crop wild relatives. The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation ...

If you run a genebank and are struggling to manage your data, you might want to consider a piece of nifty software called GRIN-Global Community Edition. And not least because there are some great ...