Two recent stories about Indigenous seed rematriation sparked some reminiscing, and a reflection about what genebanks might need to do differently. In ...

The “nutrient collapse” story has been doing the rounds for years, and we’ve been picking at it on the blog for almost as long. Back in 2009, ...

At least, not in any biological sense. No plant is born an “opportunity crop.” It becomes one when somebody finds a way to make its particular ...

Two new papers in Plants, published two months apart, tell the story of CIAT’s cassava genebank from opposite ends: how the collection was assembled and ...

As chance would have it, following my recent speculative foray into the possible connection between language and crop diversity, an essay by the great ...

I want to put up another quick post on the theme of innovative marketing of so-called “opportunity crops” in Kenyan supermarkets. Yesterday it ...

It’s the 25th birthday of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) at Wakehurst in West Sussex. Patche99z, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ...

Is it possible to epitomize the debate over how to conserve plant genetic resources in terms of the contrasting views of two people? For Julia Nordblad ...

I recently came across a few interesting resources that I’d like to share. Bangor University has a publication out that might be useful to ...

To commemorate its 80th anniversary, FAO plans to recognize some of these outstanding best practices and innovative approaches in sustainable ...