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 ...

Do you remember a Nibble from a few days back on how wild food ingredients are making their way into school meals in India? You may have wondered at the time if there was some kind of global ...

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, ...

How can we help get humble heirloom varieties of the humble potato back into cultivation? Well, fortunately, Potato News Today 1 has a handy step-by-step guide, which I reproduce verbatim below: ...

The latest GRIN-U newsletter points to a really nice series of infographics from the USDA’s Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee that I didn’t know about. But there’s a whole lot more. Explore away.

So, three years back, I posted about the floods in Pakistan, and how genebanks could potentially help farmers recover any crop diversity they lost because of them. But wouldn’t it be even better if ...

The journal Plant Genetic Resources is planning a special edition on Unlocking the Potential of National Genebanks: Tools, Strategies and Impact Metrics for sustainable Global Conservation. Katherine ...