A LinkedIn post by CGIAR stalwart Dr Carlo Fadda convinced me I should give more exposure to the recent paper Long-term agricultural diversification increases financial profitability, biodiversity, ...
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 ...
From Jeremy’s latest newsletter. To which of course you should subscribe. You’ll see he mentions Charles Darwin right up front, which allows me to link to a new course based on teaching materials ...
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 ...
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 ...
So, three years back, I posted about the floods in Pakistan, and how genebanks could potentially help farmers recover any crop diversity they lost because of them. But wouldn’t it be even better if ...
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 ...
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 ...
Long-time readers will know that I regularly try to roundup training opportunities in crop diversity conservation, basically because nobody else does it. Well, maybe I can stop doing that now. Yes, it ...