Feb 3, 2025 · The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana.There’s a rich oral history of African rice in Maroon communities, but that doesn’t mean either …

1 day ago · I seem to be doing little more these days that quoting Jeremy's latest Eat This Newsletter. I was going to include the paper Adoption of improved crop varieties limited biodiversity losses, terrestrial carbon emissions, and cropland expansion in the tropics in a forthcoming Brainfood, and I may still do so, if I can think of … Continue reading "What have improved crop varieties ever done for ...

With all eyes on Cali for the UN Biodiversity Conference (), it is timely to have a close look at National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) from different perspectives.Do they properly address plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, for example?And if they do, do they make the link to nutrition? That latter question is …

Nov 18, 2024 · Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives ...

6 days ago · South Africa ratifies the Plant Treaty. Hope its genebank goes from strength to strength. Ethiopia ratified a long time ago, and its genebank is going strong. Wouldn't it be nice if the Cherokee Nation could ratify the Plant Treaty? Want to build a community genebank like the Cherokee Nation's? Here's a resource. China hasn't ratified, … Continue reading "Nibbles: Genebanks in South Africa ...

Oct 23, 2024 · With all eyes on Cali for the UN Biodiversity Conference (), it is timely to have a close look at National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) from different perspectives.Do they properly address plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, for example?And if they do, do they make the link to nutrition? That latter question is investigated in a new report from the Initiative ...

Nov 15, 2021 · The process leading up to the just-started 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress included coming up with the "Rome Manifesto: Using Agrobiodiversity to Transform Food Systems." This highlights three "commitments to help tackle global challenges including climate change, malnutrition, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation." Consume diverse foods in diets that are nutritious ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Floristic classifications and bioregionalizations are not predictors of intra-specific evolutionary patterns. You can't use spatial structures in interspecific diversity to predict spatial structure in instraspecific diversity. Gotta do the hard work, there are no shortcuts. Intraspecific trait variability in wild plant populations predicts neither variability nor performance in a …

Feb 19, 2024 · The economic impact of CGIAR-related crop technologies on agricultural productivity in developing countries, 1961–2020. In 2020, modern varieties bred by CGIAR or developed by other institutions using CGIAR germplasm were sown on about 190 M ha, about 26% of the total harvested area of these crops in developing countries, and 43% of the total area … Continue reading "Brainfood: CGIAR ...

Sep 23, 2024 · On the importance of diversity in ecological research. Diversity of the research teams, that is. This should apply to everything that follows. Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity. The main gap seem to be in the area of "payment for system services." Agrobiodiversity could learn from biodiversity there.