Garden Organic in the UK is offering free seed-saving webinars in November, as part of their "Sowing your seeds" project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund: 4 Nov, 1-2pm: Getting started ...

The Multilateral System (MLS) of the Plant Treaty must deliver the fair and predictable monetary benefits it promised. If, that is, we want crop diversity to continue to be available with minimal ...

It's the 25th birthday of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) at Wakehurst in West Sussex. Understandably, it's getting a lot of -- very well-deserved -- coverage. I'll link to some of the more ...

Reproduced from Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales with permission. It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Rainer Schultze-Kraft, a friend, colleague and mentor, whose experience ...

A bit of a roundup of data stuff today. Things have been piling up in my to-blog folder, and the time has come to tidy up.

Did you have to develop new methods to clean the seed? Is it one of the longest cleaning or dormancy breaking processes? Was it the first time your species was germinated in a collection and unique ...

Readers with a long memory will remember that I promised I would keep an eye on the manifesto that was supposed to come out of the 3rd International Agrobiodiversity Congress, held back in May. Well, ...

In his latest Eat This Newsletter, Jeremy deconstructs a paper on Tiggiano and Polignano heriloom carrots… Culturally, each landrace is associated with a local patron saint, St Vitus in Polignano and ...

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 ...

How much trouble is agriculture facing because of climate change? There are lots of studies out there that seek to predict the effects of changes in rainfall or temperature on the yield of this or ...

Jeremy was thrilled — thrilled I tell you — at some recent news from Irish Seed Savers Association. And, frankly, so was I. It’s all in his latest newsletter. Thrilled to see that the apple juice ...

Epic narratives of the Green Revolution in Brazil, China, and India. Symbols, heroes, heritage-making and we-will-do-it-even-better-next-time in the service of self-preservation and self-assertion.