Agrobiodiversity for Climate Resilience: A Systematic Review of Yield Stability, Pest Regulation, and Nutrition Outcomes. "...agrobiodiversity emerges as a no-regrets adaptation strategy that ...

Happy to second the sentiment expressed in this snippet from Jeremy’s latest newsletter. And there are so very many more equally interesting snippets to be found across the previous 299 issues, going ...

The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) awarded Dr. Diane Ragone, founder and director emerita of NTBG’s Breadfruit Institute 1, the 2024 David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration. Dr. Ragone ...

NordGen is running a great series of weekly webinars on crop wild relatives conservation. You can find recordings of the past three on their website, but I can’t figure out how to sign up for future ...

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 ...

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, ...

The latest Seed Systems newsletter from the Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT has an interesting roundup of examples of the role of root and tuber crops in crisis situations: I think we may have included ...

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 ...

Ok, sure, maybe the Plant Treaty needs “enhancement,” and the results of its recent Governing Body meeting may have been a tad disappointing. But its achievements are undeniable, and very well ...

In his latest Eat This Newsletter, Jeremy deconstructs a paper on Tiggiano and Polignano heriloom carrots… Culturally, each landrace is associated with a local patron saint, St Vitus in Polignano and ...

Understandably, it’s getting a lot of — very well-deserved — coverage. I’ll link to some of the more interesting pieces as they come out over the next few days.

A chickpea genetic variation map based on the sequencing of 3,366 genomes. Where the good and the bad alleles are. Even The Economist is impressed. Crop Wild Relatives Crosses: Multi-Location ...