Garden Organic in the UK is offering free seed-saving webinars in November, as part of their "Sowing your seeds" project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund: 4 Nov, 1-2pm: Getting started ...

The Multilateral System (MLS) of the Plant Treaty must deliver the fair and predictable monetary benefits it promised. If, that is, we want crop diversity to continue to be available with minimal ...

It's the 25th birthday of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) at Wakehurst in West Sussex. Understandably, it's getting a lot of -- very well-deserved -- coverage. I'll link to some of the more ...

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

Reproduced from Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales with permission. It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Rainer Schultze-Kraft, a friend, colleague and mentor, whose experience ...

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 ...

A bit of a roundup of data stuff today. Things have been piling up in my to-blog folder, and the time has come to tidy up.

Readers with a long memory will remember that I promised I would keep an eye on the manifesto that was supposed to come out of the 3rd International Agrobiodiversity Congress, held back in May. Well, ...

So it seems the first vegetable variety from Puglia has been added to Italy’s Registro nazionale delle varietà da conservazione, or National Register of Conservation Varieties. The ‘Cima di cola’, a ...

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 ...

Epic narratives of the Green Revolution in Brazil, China, and India. Symbols, heroes, heritage-making and we-will-do-it-even-better-next-time in the service of self-preservation and self-assertion.

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 ...