A Proposal for Genebank Metrics to Enhance Collection Management. A framework of 10 mandatory and 38 optional metrics for orthodox-seed genebank collections (covering size, documentation, conservation ...

The UPLB Graduate School Admission Portal for the second semester of the 2025-26 school year is now open, so if you want to ...

The journal Plant Genetic Resources is planning a special edition on Unlocking the Potential of National Genebanks: Tools, Strategies and Impact Metrics for sustainable Global Conservation. Katherine ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

It’s all part of a very nice exhibit at the Museum Koenig in Bonn on biodiversity research. Great to see agricultural research get a look-in.

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.

I’m sure you enjoyed Jeremy’s fascinating conversation with Jordan Rosenblum on how the pig and the eagle diverged as the history of Jewish dietary law and custom played out. Which means you’d ...

The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has a small grants program and I hear they are looking for more applications targeting crop wild relatives. The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation ...

NordGen is running a great series of weekly webinars on crop wild relatives conservation. You can find recordings of the past three on their website, but I can’t figure out how to sign up for future ...