I've been following the vineyards of Pompeii for quite a while, it turns out. Maybe because archaeology and wine are two of ...

Jeremy's latest Eat This Newsletter tackles cassava, the chestnut, rice and pears. But his coolest find is a website called ...

We all know that agrobiodiversity conservation happens both on farms and in genebanks. But it may be that the most interesting – and intractable – bit of the process may be what happens between those ...

Land sparing is a seductive story. Farmers become more productive. We need less land to produce the same amount of food. The land we no longer need can be spared for nature. No need for that tricky ...

Brian Ford-Lloyd is excited about a recent Nibble, and who can blame him: Brilliant BBC piece on the famous mangelwurzel of Somerset and a tribute to Adge Cuttler and the Wurzels. Supermarkets would ...

Twenty years ago this month, the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog was born. Typically, the first thing we wrote about was a genebank in crisis. In October 2006, Typhoon Xangsane — known locally as ...

Two recent stories about Indigenous seed rematriation sparked some reminiscing, and a reflection about what genebanks might need to do differently. In her Ambrook piece, Emma Glassman-Hughes follows ...

We have never had access to more kinds of food plants, yet the world’s diets and production systems have never been more alike. That is the paradox at the heart of Food plant diversity in a rapidly ...

Land sparing is a seductive story. Farmers become more productive. We need less land to produce the same amount of food. The land we no longer need can be spared for nature. No need for that tricky ...

Two recent stories about Indigenous seed rematriation sparked some reminiscing, and a reflection about what genebanks might need to do differently. In her Ambrook piece, Emma Glassman-Hughes follows ...

You know a crop has arrived when The Economist does a piece on it. Ube (Dioscorea alata), the purple yam long cherished in the Philippines, is indeed suddenly everywhere, and the newspaper for the ...

Agrobiodiversity — short for agricultural biodiversity — is all the living things that people use directly or indirectly for food and agriculture. That means plants, animals and micro-organisms. It ...