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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fresh Nibbles. What has agrobiodiversity ever done for us? Kent Nnadozie of the Plant Treaty lays it out. Michael Frei of the HealthyDiets4Africa project doesn’t need it laid out.; Neither do 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 ...

Fresh Nibbles. All of IFAD’s 5 investments that will help nourish the world need crop diversity. Prove me wrong. And yet we still have to have articles on communicating the importance of genebanks.; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: Uganda: Refugee, host ...

Genesys has some cool new functionality: the Subsetting Tool. With it, you have the power to create customized subsets based on the climate and soil variables of your choice. You can read more about ...

Did you have to develop new methods to clean the seed? Is it one of the longest cleaning or dormancy breaking processes? Was it the first time your species was germinated in a collection and unique ...