Agriculture Biodiversity Blog - Stories Contributed
Nibbles: Cherokee Three Sisters, Australian native grains, Ancient Peruvian irrigation, Indian apples, IFOAM Seed Platform, MSB, Chinese conservation, Protected areas, Soybeans breeding, Funding cuts
Food and Farming | Jun 17 2025 07:225
Brainfood: Rice breeding, Sorghum parents, Cowpea diversity, Sweet potato double, Lesser yam uses, Tomato breeding, Peanut hybrids, Rice wild relatives, Sorghum genetic erosion
Food and Farming | Jun 16 2025 03:2211
Erna vs Otto
Food and Farming | Jun 13 2025 04:337
How to stay in touch
Food and Farming | Jun 12 2025 09:228
Modified ecosystems and the conservation of crop diversity
Food and Farming | Jun 11 2025 05:2227
Nibbles: Maize history, Maize in Tanzania, WorldVeg feature, Pigeonpea speed breeding, Valuing nature in food, GIAHS, Ancient Egyptian brewing redux
Food and Farming | Jun 11 2025 04:434
Another opportunity for opportunity crops
Food and Farming | Jun 09 2025 03:4327
We knead oil
Food and Farming | Jun 04 2025 03:4918
Brainfood: Balanced diets, Diverse diets, Diverse flavonoids, Micronutrients and GHGE, African traditional diets, Tef diversity, Intercropping, Sleeping crops, Cluster bean, Taste
Food and Farming | Jun 03 2025 08:096
Brush up your seedcraft
Food and Farming | Jun 03 2025 03:259
Nibbles: Indian vault, Sundarban rice, Community seed banks, Fiji cassava, Georgia documentary, Kenya seed network, Nigeria mobilizes, Coffee prizes, Slow Food guardians, Peasant seed sovereignty, World Economic Forum seed pean, Seed sector shindig, Genesys acceleration
Food and Farming | Jun 02 2025 10:015
3rd International Agrobiodiversity Congress winds down
Food and Farming | May 23 2025 07:4319
Learn how to manage your genebank data with the experts
Food and Farming | May 20 2025 04:4913
Brainfood: Complementarity, Temporality, Communality, Fonio trifecta, Atriplex domestication, Egyptian clover in India, Genebank information systems
Food and Farming | May 19 2025 03:2212
Open call for applications to an international course on Sustainable Food Production
Food and Farming | May 16 2025 09:2527
Nibbles: Nourishing investments, Genebank RoI, Seed science double, Ecuador genebank, Ethiopian genebank, MSSRF genebank, CG genebanks, Botanic gardens, SwissAid saves seeds, Brazil conservation, Indian diner, Kenyan food, Saladino on citrus, Lost apple, Seed Savers, Hybrids, Germplasm crime
Food and Farming | May 16 2025 07:017
Help FAO celebrate PGRFA management
Food and Farming | May 16 2025 05:0110
Coffee with everything
Food and Farming | May 08 2025 03:0926
Brainfood: CC & crop diversity, Dietary Species Richness, CC & banana, European genebank representativeness, Effective Population Size, VarScout, Borlotti bean diversity, Oaxacan? Green Dent, Sorghum mucilage, Gut bacterial diversity
Food and Farming | May 07 2025 07:019
Data everywhere, again — or still
Food and Farming | Apr 09 2025 04:1718
Brainfood: Andean chefs, Tricot, Enset ploidy, Minor livestock, NUS meals, Cocoyam breeding, Millets in India, Brazilian fruits, Indian fruits
Food and Farming | Apr 08 2025 06:257
Finding one’s way through the forest of forest resources databases
Food and Farming | Apr 07 2025 06:2210
Third global assessment of PGRFA sees the light of day at last
Food and Farming | Mar 31 2025 09:0121
Brainfood: Ancient maize trifecta, Chinese Neolithic, Ancient silk, Sheep domestication, Ancient focaccia, Indus diversity
Food and Farming | Mar 24 2025 04:4315
Brainfood: Ag and CC, Improved varieties, Yield growth, Food system transformation, CGIAR maize, Genetic erosion, NBSAPs, Technology & conservation, Cattle breeding
Food and Farming | Mar 17 2025 03:4311
A pressing victory
Food and Farming | Mar 11 2025 05:4311
Digging up the pig
Food and Farming | Mar 06 2025 05:1718
What makes a good coffee map?
Food and Farming | Mar 05 2025 10:0133
Save our coffee!!!
Food and Farming | Mar 04 2025 04:3347
Brainfood: Climate change & health, Cassava disease treble, Solanaceae disease, Parasitoid variation, Cucurbita diseases, Orange disease, Chestnut disease
Food and Farming | Mar 03 2025 04:0112
Nibbles: Genebanks in the US, CIAT, Egypt, Cambridge Botanic Garden, Chilean wild tomato, Kenyan veggies, PNG diet, PGRFA course
Food and Farming | Feb 18 2025 04:2511
Brainfood: QMS, Seed viability, Genotyping, Taxonomy, FAIR data, Evaluation data, Lentil data, Indian cryobank, Home genebank, Dry chain, Botanical gardens, Environmental monitoring, Bending the curve
Food and Farming | Feb 17 2025 03:4316
What have improved crop varieties ever done for us?
Food and Farming | Feb 12 2025 09:2215
Brainfood: Micronutrients, Healthy Diet Basket, Meat alternatives, Chickpea polyphenols, African yam bean breeding, CC and nutrition, Biofortification, Mali diet diversity, Myanmar & Malawi agroforestry, African indigenous vegetables, Indian fruits
Food and Farming | Feb 10 2025 03:2254
Nibbles: Genebanks in South Africa, Ethiopia, Cherokee Nation, China, India, The Netherlands…
Food and Farming | Feb 07 2025 06:2218
Brainfood: Marroon rice, Dutch aroids, Sicilian saffron, Inca agriculture, Native American agriculture, Mexican peppers, Afro-Mexican agriculture, Sahelian landraces, Small-scale fisheries, Coconut remote sensing
Food and Farming | Feb 03 2025 02:2219
Nibbles: USDA NPGS, Korean seed museum, Endangered plants, National security, Sicilian grapevines, Mike Jackson again
Food and Farming | Jan 30 2025 19:2511
Rounding up the breadfruit
Food and Farming | Jan 28 2025 10:0915
Brainfood: Diversity patterns double, Diversification drivers, Polish genetic erosion, Tibetan naked barley diversity, Indian sorghum diversity, Do novo domestication, Eggplant tree, Banana diversity, Pearl millet diversity, Pigeon pea genome, Grasspea genome, Jersey bull diversity
Food and Farming | Jan 27 2025 08:2210
Nibbles: KC Bansal, Mike Jackson, Spain strawberry genebank, Ho-Chunk maize, Heritage varieties, Roman apples, Hazelnut breeding, Old rye, Serbia grapevine herbarium, Horse domestication, Mt Vernon fruits, Worldwide Day of Botanical Art, Pre-colonial African agriculture
Food and Farming | Jan 20 2025 08:0111
Nibbles: KC Bansal, Mike Jackson, Spain strawberry genebank, Ho-Chunk maize, Heritage varieties, Romman apples, Hazelnut breeding, Old rye, Serbia grapevine herbarium, Horse domestication, Mt Vernon fruits, Worldwide Day of Botanical Art, Pre-colonial African agriculture
Food and Farming | Jan 17 2025 07:4319
Nibbles: China grasslands, Edible lily, Ag data, China potatoes, CIP genebank, Vavilov book, Ghana seeds, Nutrition enterprises, Seed production films, Khoury pod, Relais & Châteaux
Food and Farming | Jan 14 2025 07:018
Nibbles: Tree seeds, Tepary beans, USDA trials, Seed Savers Exchange, China genebank, Nepal indigenous crops, Giant yams, Brogdale, Old apples, AI taxonomy, FEED database, IPBES Nexus report, Business & biodiversity
Food and Farming | Jan 10 2025 10:0127
Brainfood: Cattle domestication double, Sheep domestication, Lomas in Peru, Sweet potato in Aotearoa, Bananas in SE Asia, African wild eggplants, Brassicaceae conservation review, Vanilla in Madagascar
Food and Farming | Nov 18 2024 04:2722
Wild strawberries and other Nordic CWR
Food and Farming | Nov 13 2024 07:2712
Brainfood: CC & livelihoods, Landscape approaches, Seed system metrics, Grain traders, Cultivar adoption, WTP for African rice, Restoration networks
Food and Farming | Nov 11 2024 03:4818
Nibbles: Diverse diets double, WB nutrition, Biodiversity credits, European ag, Indigenous ag, Asparagus varieties, Kenya genebank, CGIAR genebanks, Svalbard, Sierra Leone genebank
Food and Farming | Nov 07 2024 04:2725
The World Food Prize goes to genebankers
Food and Farming | Nov 04 2024 06:4830
Brainfood: Heraclitus, Cocoyam, Pollen, Dry chain, DSI, Global Biodiversity Framework
Food and Farming | Oct 28 2024 05:0523
Mind the gap between crop diversity and nutrition
Food and Farming | Oct 23 2024 04:458
The latest on the Carolina African Runner Peanut
Food and Farming | Oct 22 2024 04:2627
Brainfood: Food systems, Micronutrients, Animal-source foods, Dietary diversity, Opportunity crops, Traditional landscapes, Gastronomic landscapes, Opportunity crops, Biofortification, Fermentation
Food and Farming | Oct 21 2024 02:4726
Nibbles: IUCN report, Land Institute, Climate smart beer, BioLeft seeds, Cryo coral
Food and Farming | Oct 17 2024 04:0510
The biofortification debate continues
Food and Farming | Oct 16 2024 01:2620
Brainfood: Beverage edition
Food and Farming | Oct 14 2024 07:4725
Nibbles: China genebanks, African genebanks, PNG genebank, Opportunity crops, Bananocalypse, IRRI genebank, African Runner Peanut, Australian genebank, Agrobiodiversity, Navajo agriculture, Wayuu agriculture, COPs
Food and Farming | Oct 11 2024 10:0514
Brainfood: EU landraces, EU GIs, Citizen fruit scientists, Nordic potatoes, Czech wheat, German wheat, Wild Brassica collecting, Chinese & European soybeans, Italian goats
Food and Farming | Sep 30 2024 07:0516
Nibbles: CWR double, Banana threats, Banana collecting, Rice breeding, Cassava breeding, SADC livestock genebank, Community seedbank, Sunflower mapping, Restoration
Food and Farming | Sep 25 2024 05:3710
The outline of a deal for a better MLS?
Food and Farming | Sep 24 2024 09:4716
Brainfood: Diverse ecologists, Wild vs cultivated, Ecosystem services, Indigenous people, Mixtures, On-farm trees, Monitoring protected areas, Social media & protected areas, Wild harvesting, Land sparing vs sharing, Agroecology & plant health, Wild vs cultivated
Food and Farming | Sep 23 2024 05:0525
The olive’s second act?
Food and Farming | Sep 17 2024 02:5237
Brainfood: Pacific plant use, Rapa Nui crops, E African crops, Cotton domestication, Fertile Crescent Neolithic, Dutch Neolithic, S Italy crops, Rice domestication, Maize domestication
Food and Farming | Sep 16 2024 05:4629
Brainfood: Seed quantity, Seed quality, Seed testing, Seed sampling, Cryo review, Potato diversity, Coconut cryo, Apple genebanks, Pear vulnerability, Pear restoration, Celebrity conservation, Indigenous rematriation, Farmers’ Rights
Food and Farming | Sep 09 2024 03:4619
Nibbles: Cropscapes, Ecuador cacao, Nigerian yams, Lima bean show, Mesopotamian cooking, Nepal seed banks, RNA integrity, China genebanks, Cryo comics, Greening
Food and Farming | Aug 21 2024 05:0014
The diplomacy of germplasm collecting
Food and Farming | Aug 20 2024 06:0030
Not Your Usual Potatoes
Food and Farming | Aug 19 2024 08:0459
Funding opportunity for crop wild relatives
Food and Farming | Aug 12 2024 06:2511
Nibbles: SeedLinked, Heritage Seed Library, HarvestPlus, Enset, EBI, Saharan/Sahelian flora, Pollen, Food & climate, Food prices, Moonraker, Svalbard eats, Devex does seeds, CGRFA ABS survey
Food and Farming | Aug 08 2024 08:0417
Nibbles: Forest seed collecting, Colombian maize, Türkiye & China genebanks, Community seedbank trifecta, Wheat breeding, Rice breeding, Bean INCREASE, WorldVeg regen, UK apples, Rangeland management
Food and Farming | Jul 03 2024 06:0310
It started with a seed 20 years ago
Food and Farming | Jul 03 2024 06:0333
We have the data on superfoods – now what?
Food and Farming | Jun 25 2024 12:0324
Brainfood: UK NUS, German labelling, Indian diversity, Ghana fonio, Kenya veggies, Rwanda biofortified beans, Cassava WTP, Urochloa resources, Perennial flax
Food and Farming | Jun 18 2024 05:0216
What did Jesus eat?
Food and Farming | Jun 14 2024 04:0241
Nibbles: SPAM2020, Pullman genebank, Svalbard, Olive plague, Rice diversity, Vanilla threat, Gum rockrose, VACS demand, AI double, Food & climate change
Food and Farming | Jun 06 2024 09:0216
Brainfood: Biodiversity nexus, Nutrition interventions, European land suitability, Beyond yield, Cover crops, CWR breeding, Rice gaps, Banana info system
Food and Farming | Jun 03 2024 01:449
A new treaty on genetic resources
Food and Farming | May 28 2024 05:428
Seeds find a way
Food and Farming | May 27 2024 08:0217
Nibbles: Seed info, Potato 101, Coffee 101, Rice repatriation, Iraq genebank, Use or lose, Teff breeding, Micronutrients, Agrobiodiversity, Plant a Seed Kit, WorldVeg to Svalbard, Seed Health Units
Food and Farming | May 20 2024 06:4419
A census of seed libraries
Food and Farming | May 15 2024 06:5833
Happy birthday ILRI genebank
Food and Farming | May 14 2024 06:2319
Brainfood: Yield gap, Domestication & breeding, TEK, Breeding gourds, Breeding pearl millet, Breeding peas, Banana seed systems, Breeding bees
Food and Farming | May 13 2024 02:0212
Leaders of crop diversity conservation land World Food Prize
Food and Farming | May 10 2024 03:4423
Forgotten crops in the limelight
Food and Farming | May 03 2024 03:4137
A world farm, illustrated
Food and Farming | May 03 2024 03:3344
Colorado State PGR course runs again
Food and Farming | May 02 2024 06:2212
Nibbles: Seed video, Kew video, Indonesian cassava, Crop maps, Neglected crops, KEPHIS lab, Turkish genebank, Nepal rice, Polynesian sugarcane, Ancient beer, Garlic basics
Food and Farming | Apr 30 2024 10:0113
Agricultural biodiversity conference and survey
Food and Farming | Apr 11 2024 03:0112
Brainfood: Food shift, Food footprint, Periodic Table of Food, Nutritious food, Diverse food, Food seed kits, Food meta-metrics
Food and Farming | Apr 09 2024 06:0143
Giving a fig
Food and Farming | Apr 09 2024 03:2223
Nibbles: Arboreta, IPES-Food, CGN, China genebank, Banana diversity, British hops, Coffee & deforestation
Food and Farming | Apr 05 2024 09:0113
An award for conserving seeds
Food and Farming | Mar 27 2024 06:3314
Nibbles: VACS, FAO forgotten foods, African roots, Hopi corn, Adivasis rice, Sustainable farming, Llama history, Vicuña sweaters, Portuguese cattle, Mexico genebank, NZ genebank, Bat pollination, Eat This Newsletter, WEF
Food and Farming | Mar 26 2024 09:0121
What IS wrong with biofortification?
Food and Farming | Mar 25 2024 11:3324
Brainfood: Wild melon dispersal, Fertile Crescent domestications, Angiosperm threats, Wild rice alliance, Wild potato leaves, Brassica oleracea pangenome, Wild Vigna nutrients
Food and Farming | Mar 25 2024 04:0134
Faith Fyles, and more
Food and Farming | Mar 19 2024 07:4114
Brainfood: US edition
Food and Farming | Mar 19 2024 07:4138
Vamping with VACS
Food and Farming | Mar 19 2024 06:4334
How to get training in crop diversity conservation redux
Food and Farming | Mar 19 2024 06:4319
Nibbles: Indian millets, Indian rice, Neolithic bread, Andean potatoes, UAE genebank, Niger onions, Lentil domestication, Italian rice, Faith Fyles, Sea cucumber
Food and Farming | Mar 12 2024 07:4334
Brainfood: Landrace threats, Heritage areas, Bean erosion, Rice restoration, Cassava redundancy, Commercialization, Peanut network, Podolian cattle
Food and Farming | Mar 11 2024 06:2229
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