Pecan inside – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/peca... #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #history #nuts

A global synthesis of >600 studies finds that across agro-ecosystems, grasslands and forests in temperate and tropical zones, increasing plant diversity has a consistently positive effect on plant performance and the suppression of antagonists 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌺 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘪 is a new tea plant species discovered in the danxia landscape of Danxiashan Mountain. ⛰️ This very same mountain has yielded over 16 new plant species in recent years. Most of these local plant families, including 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘪, are facing a high risk of extinction.

Genebank data at a crossroads – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/gene... #genebanks #datamanagement #conservation #biodiversity

Yeah but the trains ran on time.

Agriculture rooted in genebanks, kinda – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/agri... #conservation #biodiversity #cropdiversity #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #worldbank

Nibbles: Restoration, Monitoring, CARDI, Margot Forde, Warwick, Slow Beans 2025, Lonicera – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/nibb... #conservation #biodiversity #cropdiversity #genebanks #forests #restoration #vegetables #honeysuckle #beans

Frozen 2: This time it’s crop diversity – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/froz... #conservation #biodiversity #cryopreservation #cropdiversity #genebanks

Guardian of a (nearly) forgotten staple honoured – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/guar... #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds #conservation #breadfruit #pacific #hawaii

Delighted to see this recent article in the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social by @donnalferguson.bsky.social on some of the research outputs for the Naming Species in the South Pacific project: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl... With thanks to our collaborators, @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social

2025 in museums review: Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, visit in February. Lots of agricultural history from early colonial history of Texas: brands, barbed wire, pesticides. The game where you are a settler trying to avoid disasters (from tornados to no water) was fascinating.

🦙🧬Pleased to present our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧬🦙 Palaeogenomics of early camelid use in the Atacama Desert (Chile). We used ancient DNA to revisit animals being hunted/herded >3,000 years ago. Manuscript here: rdcu.be/eVwwl #aDNA #popgen Thread below🧵 Reposts appreciated :)

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Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Global Crop Diversity Day opens at the @cipotato.org in Lima ahead of @planttreaty.bsky.social GB 11 Co-hosted by the Crop Trust, CIP and Plant Treaty, it features: 🌱 The first deposit to CIP’s cryo genebank 🌱 Launch of Vegetables4Life initiative 🌱 Expert discussions @cgiar.org #biodiversity

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In 1700s Britain tea was in such high demand it was often counterfeited - with local plants mixed with turpentine, paint and sheep dung. This book shows an authentic Chinese tea leaf (bottom left) in comparison with 'spurious' substitute leaves Find out more in Hooked www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...

Nibbles: Ukraine duplication, Mexican native maize, Andean agriculture double, Campanian crops double, Pacific cryobank, Moringa promotion – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/11/nibb... #genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity

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Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

"Agricultural biodiversity is not a luxury; it is our insurance policy against an uncertain future." www.fao.org/plant-treaty... #ITPGRFA GB meets in #megadiverse Peru @planttreaty.bsky.social @AgroBioDiverse.bsky.social @CoventryCAWR.bsky.social #FarmersRights #Agroecology #FoodSovereignty

Restoring land can help build peace. In Somalia, UNEP and IOM - UN Migration projects backed by Germany show how #ClimateAction can ease resource conflicts and strengthen security. Here are some lessons learned: https://bit.ly/47BRf8k#ClimateAction #BCSC2025

Nibbles: Millennium #Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana #genebank – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb...

🌱 Tomorrow we launch Plant Science Wales at the National Botanic Garden of Wales! Explore seed banks, herbarium tours & panels on agri-tech, biophilia & more. Organised by IBERS & NBGW, supported by the Learned Society of Wales. Follow for behind-the-scenes & speaker highlights!

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Dept. of Good to Have it Confirmed "There are hundreds of different large-scale wine scandals that suggest the institutions responsible for reviewing, rating, and certifying wine don’t deserve the reputations they pride themselves on." www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-myth-o... #wine

Brainfood: Data edition... Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...

In keeping with one of the newsletter items, can’t wait to see what Tip-Top Tariffs makes of the UK’s latest crop breakthrough, assuming they eventually get enough to export. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nibbles: Fiona Hay, Richard Ellis, FAO exhibition, Peasants, Wheat breeding, Svalbard, Søren Ejlersen, Ephraim Bull, Heirloom apples, Caffeine, Collards history – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb... #conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds

There’s a webinar on the EU's knowledge review of Neglected & Underutilized Species on 15 October. Maybe somebody will mention why previous cycles of interest petered out? knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/event/neglec... #opportunitycrops #conservation #genebanks

Those who cannot remember the past of NUS… – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/thos... #genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #seeds

No, "the world's taste for soya" isn't to blame: most people won't taste any soya, but the meat, dairy, eggs and fish produced very inefficiently with the soya as feed. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social often says: "If you want to eat less soya [to help save the Amazon], eat soya!" shorturl.at/bOvl1

Brainfood: Crop diversity has a solution for almost anything... Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brai... #plantbreeding #conservation #seedsaving #genebanks

‘Cima di cola’ reaches a milestone, apparently – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/cima...

And herе come the managers to hit us on the sly And tinpot generals with glory in their eyes Owners, moaners, Judases and Janes But righteousness is in our eyes, we've got no time for games

Eat This Newsletter 283 * “What They Ate Was Disgusting, Filthy, and Backward” * “A Cabal of Dark Forces” * “An Increasingly Landless Agricultural System” * “Bad News for Farmers” * “Health Honeys” Read it for free at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #newsletter #food #agriculture

Eat This Podcast: The Miracle of Salt Talking to Naomi Duguid about her book The Miracle of Salt and we managed to avoid the whole pink salt diet trick nonsense. So should you. Listen at eatthispodcast.com/salt #food #podcast #salt

Nibbles: Seed banks everywhere edition... Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/nibb... #genebanks #conservation #seeds #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity #seedsaving #heirlooms

A concerted effort to conserve edible plants kicks off – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/a-co...

Good news from the #genebank world? Say it ain't so. Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/gene...

Nibbles: Ancient Mexican seedbank, Indian millets, Foraged foods, Soybean breeding, Apple breeding, Albanian heirlooms, Bangladesh fish genebank – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/nibb... #genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #seedsaving #seedbank #plantbreeding

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Earlier this week I posted a roundup of papers describing recent improvements to the "software" of #genebanks agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brai.... Next Monday, it's the turn of genebank "hardware." Keep up to date: agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/how-...

Brainfood: Tech helping #genebanks with... Taxonomic identification, Niche mapping, Drones, Phenomics, Yield analysis... Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brai... #conservation #technology #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity #heirloomseeds

Earlier this week I posted a roundup of papers describing recent improvements to the "software" of #genebanks agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brai.... Next Monday, it's the turn of genebank "hardware." Keep up to date: agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/how-...

Cool tech is reshaping every step of the crop diversity conservation process.

Nibbles: Corn diseases, German potato collection, Endophyte strain, Fish nutrition, Himalayan pea, Subversive seeds – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/nibb... #conservation #seeds #genebanks #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity