5 days ago · 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 …

3 days ago · 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, terrestrial carbon emissions, and cropland expansion in the tropics in a forthcoming Brainfood -- and I may still do so, if I can … Continue reading "What have improved crop varieties ever done ...

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 ...

Feb 7, 2025 · 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 ...

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 …

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.

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 ...

Oct 21, 2024 · Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems. Six experts have their say on how to transform food systems, and dietary diversity seems to be a common (though not a universal) theme. Let's dig a little deeper into that. Global estimation of dietary micronutrient inadequacies: a modelling analysis. A lot of people could …

Jun 3, 2024 · Understanding the role of biodiversity in the climate, food, water, energy, transport and health nexus in Europe. Meta-analysis shows that a lot of things people do affect biodiversity negatively, yet biodiversity affects most things people want to do positively. Food Systems Interventions for Nutrition: Lessons from 6 Program Evaluations in Africa and South Asia. Have … Continue reading ...