Readers may remember a post from about a year ago announcing with sadness the imminent demise of Kew’s Seed Information Database (SID). Well, cheer up. It seems SID is back. The Seed Information ...

Where are we with the whole enhancing the functioning of the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System thing? I’m glad you asked. You’ll remember that… [h]istorically, parties have been divided between ...

I seem to be doing little more these days that quoting Jeremy’s latest Eat This Newsletter. I was actually going to include the paper Adoption of improved crop varieties limited biodiversity losses, ...

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 ...

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.

Thanks to Christian Bunn for throwing some shade on the work underlying the map of putative changes in coffee suitability that I so blithely shared yesterday. Maps can be both pretty and also the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a recent post here I suggested that, despite frequent recourse to the comparison, genebanks are in fact not much like libraries, at least when it comes to deciding which of their contents can ...

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.

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 ...

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: ...