Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

It’s a great pleasure to help Jeremy’s latest newsletter amplify the work of the Culinary Breeding Network. There’s other interesting stuff in there, so check it out.

A very different approach to adding value to plant varieties can be found at the

In the interest of completeness, I feel it incumbent upon me to complement the post on gap analysis for crop diversity conservation a few days ago with a couple of additional links.

The Crop Trust and FAO elearning ...

Do you work in a national genebanks? If so, you might want to take a survey on your “molecular characterisation capacity, infrastructure, policy environment, and interest in future DSI collaboration with CGIAR.”

Many thanks to long-time friend-of-the-blog Dr Colin Khoury for this latest contribution.

Conservation gap analysis using Geographic Information System (GIS) tools relies on several sources of biological and environmental data, including in situ species occurrences and climatic and other environmental variables used to conduct species distribution modeling, as...