News

Jeremy's latest newsletter saves me including an interesting paper on the domestication of avocado in a forthcoming Brainfood. The often humid climate of the tropics means that ancient plant remains ...
I'm sure you enjoyed Jeremy's fascinating conversation with Jordan Rosenblum on how the pig and the eagle diverged as the history of Jewish dietary law and custom played out. Which means you'd ...
Genebanks have a communication problem: they are a do-something-for-tomorrow thing in a something-must-be-done-now world. Well, it turns out that some important people are increasingly seeing these ...
Jeremy's latest Eat This Newsletter has a piece on Dumbarton Oaks' Plant of the Month feature on breadfruit. And much else besides. Do have a look. In contrast to Jeremy, I myself have knowingly eaten ...
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, ...
Do you find the Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture a little, shall we say, hard to digest? Not to worry, there are now handy practical guides for the application ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It might be because we happen to be doing something on the coffee diversity conservation strategy at work, but I have been noticing a lot of joe-related material online lately. There's the bit on ...
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 ...
The Toolbox offers a collection of 11 tools that help diagnose, evaluate and improve seed systems of banana, cassava, potato, sweet potato, and yam. These tools can be used by researchers, policy ...