How much trouble is agriculture facing because of climate change? There are lots of studies out there that seek to predict the effect of changes in rainfall and temperature on the yield of this or ...

To save you googling, the Rikuy Agrobio website he mentions, with the community-level tools for monitoring crop diversity, is here. And you can explore potato diversity in on-farm hotspots on wikiPapa ...

It's that time of year again. Yes, the time to exchange bean seeds via the INCREASE project. Read all about it here, and get your beans ready for spring.

Every once in a while a new dam dataset crops up. Dam, not damn. Well, maybe damn as well. Anyway, when that happens, I feel compelled to mash it up with accession locality data. Because if I don't do ...

Jeremy tackles superfood in his latest newsletter. Do subscribe. The ultimate expression of food as medicine is the search for active ingredients. Why go to the bother of eating broccoli or Brussels ...

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 ...

At the International Congress of Genetics in New Delhi in 1983, I stressed the need for a conservation continuum, beginning with revitalizing conservation of domesticated plants by farm families in ...

We've referred to Project Baseline here a couple of times, but always somewhat desultorily. But I think that needs to end now that the project hit the big time with a shoutout in Gizmodo. Based at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...