Glad to see agroforestry based papers hitting the top cited list!

#agroforestry #agrobiodiversity #traits #agroecology

Adding to our understanding of farm biodiversity in achieving farm sustainability.

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Brainfood: Rice breeding, Cowpea diversity, Sorghum pangenome, Faba bean genome, Banana wild relative, Cassava breeding, Seed laws, Microbiome double Linking genetic gains to food security outcomes: An assessment of IRRI’S rice breeding efforts in the Philippines and Indonesia. Plant breeding is a marathon, not a sprint. Scaling up orphan crop rese...

Brainfood: Rice breeding, Cowpea diversity, Sorghum pangenome, Faba bean genome, Banana wild relative, Cassava breeding, Seed laws, Microbiome double

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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#conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #seeds #nutrition #biodiversity

Das Buch-Cover von »Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds« auf orangefarbenem Hintergrund.

If crop diversity loss is a product of modern agriculture, is freezing seed diversity to adapt modern agriculture to changing conditions the answer?

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7811-6/

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#Agrobiodiversity #SvalbardGlobalSeedVault #EnvironmentalHumanities

Brainfood: Yield double, NUS double, Wild food plants, NbS, Portuguese genebanks, School meals, Indian nutrition, Nutritional diversity trifecta Releasing agriculture from the food security mandate. Research should focus toward sustaining production means and farmer welfare, rather than area productivity. Beyond yields: a systems approach is e...

Brainfood: Yield double, NUS double, Wild food plants, NbS, Portuguese genebanks, School meals, Indian nutrition, Nutritional diversity trifecta – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/brai...

#genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #nutrition #seeds

Unchaining genebanks Can the food processing industry contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity? Of course it can. Even in genebanks? Sure, why not. There's no reason beyond a failure...

Unchaining genebanks – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/unch...

#genebanks #conservation #markets #agrobiodiversity #seeds #biodiversity

Brainfood: History edition Phylogenetics and evolution of Digitaria grasses, including cereal crops fonio, raishan and Polish millet. The history of wild Digitaria goes back 2–6 million years. Biogeography of Crop Progenitors a...

Brainfood: History edition

Just let me have my little fun...

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog: agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/brai...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds

TUI Care Foundation empowers Colombian entrepreneurs and farmers through sustainable tourism initiatives | TUI Group - One of the world's leading tourism groups TUI Group is one of the world’s leading tourism groups: 1,600 travel agencies, 6 airlines with around 150 aircraft, over 300 hotels with 214,000 beds, 17 cruise liners

#InTheNews re #sustainable #travel & #development:
8/ #Community/#Culture: #Tui launch 2 new #Colombia projects: #Futureshapers capacity building for 50 #entrepreneurs; #FieldToFork #agroecology for #food security, #agrobiodiversity & #eco-gastronomy
www.tuigroup.com/en/newsroom/... #SDG8 #SDG11

Nibbles: Agricultural expansion maps, Brassica diversity, Not against the grain, South African seedbanks, Safer peanuts, Diné seedbank Agriculture is bad for natural ecosystems. But great for maps, you have to admit. Greens are good for you. And this is a great roundup of the latest scholarship on brassica evolution, domestication an...

Nibbles: Agricultural expansion maps, Brassica diversity, Not against the grain, South African seedbanks, Safer peanuts, Diné seedbank

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/nibb...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

TUI Care Foundation empowers Colombian entrepreneurs and farmers through sustainable tourism initiatives | TUI Group - One of the world's leading tourism groups TUI Group is one of the world’s leading tourism groups: 1,600 travel agencies, 6 airlines with around 150 aircraft, over 300 hotels with 214,000 beds, 17 cruise liners

#Tui launch 2 new #Colombia projects to support local #communities & create #sustainable #tourism income opportunities: #Futureshapers capacity building for 50 #entrepreneurs; #FieldToFork #agroecology for food security, #agrobiodiversity & #eco-gastronomy
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These seeds are from the government, and they’re here to help you In his recent paper in Plant Genetic Resources, Reimagining the Role of National Genebanks: Purposes, Priorities, and Programs, Cary Fowler offers a refreshingly blunt intervention for the world’s nat...

These seeds are from the government, and they’re here to help you – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/thes...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #plantbreeding #seeds

Nibbles: Online seeds, Yam breeding, Rice genebanks, Indian commmunity seed banks, Sikkim banana, Cassava disease, ICARDA genebank, Tajikistan women The perils of dematerialization play out in India. Is YamHub dematerialization? Rice genebanks in Bangladesh and at IRRI are pretty solid. There's a pretty solid platform for India's community seed ba...

Nibbles: Online #seeds, Yam breeding, Rice #genebanks, Indian commmunity seed banks, Sikkim banana, Cassava disease, ICARDA genebank, Tajikistan women – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/nibb...

#agrobiodiversity

Brainfood: Restoration edition Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation. Better mapping shows there is less land available for reforestation than we thought, and there a...

Brainfood: Restoration edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/brai...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

🇭🇺 example for #agrobiodiversity

A home for genebank training at last? Long-time readers will know that I regularly try to roundup training opportunities in crop diversity conservation, basically because nobody else does it. Well, maybe I can stop doing that now. Yes, it...

A home for genebank training at last? – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/a-ho...

#genebanks #training #conservation #agrobiodiversity

Crowdsourcing crop diversity, and information A couple of crowd-sourcing initiatives caught my eye. First, the good people at the COUSIN project want to expand genebank collections of wild relatives of wheat, barley, lettuce, brassica, and peas i...

Crowdsourcing crop diversity, and information – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/crow...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

Brainfood: Genetic erosion edition Crop diversity trends captured by Indigenous and local knowledge: introduction to the symposium. A whole symposium on how Indigenous knowledge reveals widespread loss of traditional crops and landrace...

Brainfood: Genetic erosion edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/brai...
#genebanks #conservation #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity

Promoting #agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the effects of climate change on #foodsecurity. We highlight the role of evolutionary processes in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge.

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Agro-tour de force I've been very interested in the intersection between tourism and agrobiodiversity conservation ever since I was (admittedly tangentially) involved in the late, great Marleni Ramirez's Adventures in A...

Agro-tour de force – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/agro...

#conservation #agrobiodiversity #genebanks #tourism

Brainfood: Diversity of Sugarcane, Rice, Lentils, Olives, Sweetpotato, Cassava, Beans, Buckwheat, Pigeon pea, Landscapes The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane. The genome of modern sugarcane is a mosaic of wild introgressions, including on...

Brainfood: Diversity of Sugarcane, Rice, Lentils, Olives, Sweetpotato, Cassava, Beans, Buckwheat, Pigeon pea, Landscapes – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/brai...

#agrobiodiversity #conservation #genebanks #biodiversity #seeds

Nibbles: Family farming, Banana diversity, Logotonu Waqainabete, ICARDA genebank women, SOTW3 in Africa "Our traditional crops are not just food. They are life. They are our ancestors’ legacy and our children’s inheritance." "Banana diversity is not only a scientific or agricultural asset — it is the se...

Nibbles: Family farming, Banana diversity, Logotonu Waqainabete, ICARDA genebank women, SOTW3 in Africa – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/nibb...

#agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #WomenInScience #conservation #genebanks

Joining up the crop diversity impact dots a bit better I think I was a bit too gnomic in the last Brainfood. What I was trying to do was arrange a bunch of recent papers on the pipeline from diverse farm landscapes to better health and nutrition outcomes....

Joining up the crop diversity impact dots a bit better – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/join...

#agrobiodiversity #conservation #biodiversity

Fig. 5: ABDIS and ABDPS distributions and hotspot analysis. a–d Maps of the district-level agrobiodiversity index score (ABDIS) distribution (a), scored from 0 (yellow, low overall taxonomic–functional diversity) to 1 (dark green, high overall taxonomic–functional diversity), and agrobiodiversity potential score (ABDPS) distribution (b), scored from 0 (taxonomic–functional parity, yellow) to 1 (high taxonomic–functional disparity, dark blue), with balance (0.4–0.6, light green). Hotspot maps for ABDIS hotspots (c) and ABDPS (d) show hotspots (light red: 90%, orange: 95%, red: 99%) and coldspots (bluish gray: 90%, light blue: 95%, dark blue: 99%); not significant (white), excluded (dark gray).

[8/8] La sécurité alimentaire dépend moins du nb d’espèces cultivées que de leur qualité nutritionnelle. Les politiques agricoles doivent articuler diversité biologique, nutrition et justice territoriale pour réduire durablement la malnutrition. #geography #agrobiodiversity #nutrition #SouthAsia

Linking species and functional crop diversity in South Asia: a spatial assessment of agrobiodiversity for nutrition-sensitive agriculture - npj Sustainable Agriculture npj Sustainable Agriculture - Linking species and functional crop diversity in South Asia: a spatial assessment of agrobiodiversity for nutrition-sensitive agriculture

[1/8] Des scientifiques bangladais analysent l’agrobiodiversité dans 906 districts d’Asie du Sud et montrent que la diversité des cultures ne se traduit pas automatiquement par une meilleure diversité alimentaire et nutritionnelle. #geography #agrobiodiversity #nutrition #foodsecurity #SouthAsia

Brainfood: Crop diversity edition Small farms contribute a third of the food consumed in high-income nations. And those small farms are disproportionately diverse... The Global Spatial Co-Variation Between Crop Diversity and Landscape...

Brainfood: Crop diversity edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/brai...

Yeah, I know it's been a while. Sue me.

#organicagriculture #conservation #agrobiodiversity

🔬 Within ROTATES, CREA analysed sweet potato leaves and roots to measure total dietary fibre. This work helps understand the nutritional value of minor root and tuber crops and supports their integration into sustainable European food systems.🌱
#ROTATES #HorizonEurope #CREAricerca #Agrobiodiversity

Pecan inside A peek inside Jeremy's latest newsletter is always worthwhile... An extract from a book usually needs a bit of context if it is to make much sense. Alas, How an Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan...

Pecan inside – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/peca...

#conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #history #nuts

Discover the Inaugural ROTATES Newsletter on Agrobiodiversity Explore the debut edition of the ROTATES Newsletter featuring insights into agrobiodiversity, climate-resilient farming, and innovation.

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#ROTATES #HorizonEurope #Agrobiodiversity

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Agriculture rooted in genebanks, kinda Diverse Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) are an important aspect of biodiversity and greater investment in both in-situ and ex-situ conservation of genetic material will be imp...

Agriculture rooted in genebanks, kinda – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/agri...

#conservation #biodiversity #cropdiversity #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #worldbank

#ROTATES #RootAndTuberCrops #Agrobiodiversity #ClimateResilience #SustainableFarming #MRTCrops #FoodSystems #HorizonEU

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Guardian of a (nearly) forgotten staple honoured The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) awarded Dr. Diane Ragone, founder and director emerita of NTBG’s Breadfruit Institute , the 2024 David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration. Dr. Ragone g...

Guardian of a (nearly) forgotten staple honoured – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/guar...

#agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds #conservation #breadfruit #pacific #hawaii