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 …

2 days 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Apr 10, 2023 · One hundred important questions facing plant science: an international perspective. How do we leverage existing genetic diversity to create climate-resilient crops? is only number 3 you say? I'll take it. And in fact that broad question gets deconstructed in questions 36-71. Now, let's see how today's haul of papers relates to that, shall we? A … Continue reading "Brainfood: 100 plant ...

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 ...