Agrobiodiverse
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I’m Luigi Guarino and I post mainly on the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity. Especially, but not exclusively, in genebanks. I live in Kenya. I’m retired. Check out my blog: https://agro.biodiver.se
The food industry keeps losing lawsuits, but still they keep ‘em coming. Eat This Newsletter looks at that, cryptospora in the USA and Europe, the EU’s need to support a healthier diet, waves of interest in nutrition, and the warm Middle Ages. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #agriculture
Eat This Newsletter 310: Focussed
Hello We had a brief respite from the heat last week, but things are ramping up again. Does that make me want to be back in the Middle Ages? Not really. And...
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From preserving options to exercising options – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/09/from... #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #conservation #seedsystems #PlantBreeding
From preserving options to exercising options
There is nothing particularly new about the idea that the stuff genebanks conserve should be used. For decades, plant genetic resources specialists have pointed out that conserving crop diversity is o...
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Land dynamics may dominate the potential resilience of ecological farming: "While ecological research suggests that diversification can enhance resilience under stress, our results show that diversified systems did not expand during this period of drought and groundwater scarcity."
Constraints on crop diversification under drought: Multi-scale evidence from California’s San Joaquin Valley
Extreme droughts are expected to test the resilience of agricultural systems, and agricultural diversification is often proposed as a strategy to buffer farms against climatic stress. However, there i...
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Brainfood: The diverse lives and times of crop diversity – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/brai... #genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #PlantBreeding #HeirloomSeeds
Brainfood: The diverse lives and times of crop diversity
Herbaria viva: proto-genebanks of Mendel’s contemporaries in Moravia. The early 19th century living plant collections of Moravia (the world Mendel grew up in) were a kind of proto-genebank, systematic...
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What is maize good for? – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/maiz... #conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #PlantBreeding #OpportunityCrops
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Director of Seed Savers Exchange Mike Bollinger’s call in Food Tank’s to carry seed diversity forward: Indigenous communities, farmers, gardeners and seed libraries all have a role in keeping crop diversity alive and used. agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/nibb...
Nibbles: Kurdish genebank, Ghana genebank, PABRA, Ubu, Beyond genebanks
Kurdistan inaugurates a new genebank in Sulaymaniyah, which Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani calls one of Kurdistan and Iraq’s most important national projects. Ghana complements its national coll...
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In the Philippines, eight promising purple-yam accessions combine yield, sensory quality and market appeal, with Villasis 2 producing up to 60 tonnes per hectare in trials. A network next? agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/nibb... See also this on ube: agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/ube-...
Nibbles: Kurdish genebank, Ghana genebank, PABRA, Ubu, Beyond genebanks
Kurdistan inaugurates a new genebank in Sulaymaniyah, which Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani calls one of Kurdistan and Iraq’s most important national projects. Ghana complements its national coll...
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Three decades of African bean research partnerships and networking have helped turn a staple crop into a vehicle for improved nutrition, livelihoods and climate resilience. agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/nibb... #genebanks #conservation #biodiversity #PlantBreeding
Nibbles: Kurdish genebank, Ghana genebank, PABRA, Ubu, Beyond genebanks
Kurdistan inaugurates a new genebank in Sulaymaniyah, which Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani calls one of Kurdistan and Iraq’s most important national projects. Ghana complements its national coll...
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Ghana complements its national #genebank at Bunso. The new facility further north will improve drying, processing and conservation, while giving northern farmers and breeders closer access to crop diversity. agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/nibb...
Nibbles: Kurdish genebank, Ghana genebank, PABRA, Ubu, Beyond genebanks
Kurdistan inaugurates a new genebank in Sulaymaniyah, which Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani calls one of Kurdistan and Iraq’s most important national projects. Ghana complements its national coll...
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Kurdistan inaugurates a new #genebank in Sulaymaniyah, which Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani calls one of Kurdistan and Iraq’s most important national projects. agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/nibb... #agrobiodiversity #conservation #biodiversity
Nibbles: Kurdish genebank, Ghana genebank, PABRA, Ubu, Beyond genebanks
Kurdistan inaugurates a new genebank in Sulaymaniyah, which Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani calls one of Kurdistan and Iraq’s most important national projects. Ghana complements its national coll...
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Terere, in more ways than one – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/tere... #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #conservation #genebanks #agriculture #vegetables #nutrition #Kenya #OpportunityCrops
Terere, in more ways than one
Terere (amaranth) is mainly a traditional leafy green vegetable in Kenya of course... ...and readily available these days in supermarkets. But it's interesting to see the grain also used... ...in lots...
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Sad about the trees but this story features a lot of good news about successful propagations of extremely rare species. #GreenSky #conservation 🌎https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/27/kew-gardens-london-palm-house-renovation-project?
‘Sad moments ahead’: Kew Gardens to fell rare trees in race to save Victorian greenhouse
Horticulturalists begin moving and propagating plants before the rusty and warped Palm House begins renovation – but some are too tall to save
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The world’s leading crop art website did a feature on resistance crop art this year: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
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Cassava on a roll? – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/cass... #agriculture #cassava #ClimateChange #agrobiodivesity
Cassava on a roll?
Is it me, or are there more cassava products... ...in Kenyan supermarkets these days? Production has been up and down, though on a generally rising trend, mainly due to expansion of the area of cultiv...
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How do you justify support for genebanks when their value may not become apparent for 50 years? The simple answer is: You shouldn't need to. Just take a look at what comes out of them. #agrobiodiversity #conservation
Agrobiodiverse@agrobiodiverse.bsky.social · last wk.2 recent papers tell the story of CIAT's cassava #genebank from opposite ends: how the collection was assembled & conserved, & what breeders have done with it: a candid 50-year audit of a slow-motion agricultural asset. Read my take... agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/50-y... #conservation #biodiversity
The plants that statistics forgot – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/the-... #conservation #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity #genebanks #OpportunityCrops #WildFoods #nutrition
The plants that statistics forgot
FAO has just put out new guidance on capturing wild foods and neglected and underutilized species (NUS) in dietary surveys. It's very much worth a look, even if your interest runs more to grain landra...
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2 recent papers tell the story of CIAT's cassava #genebank from opposite ends: how the collection was assembled & conserved, & what breeders have done with it: a candid 50-year audit of a slow-motion agricultural asset. Read my take... agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/50-y... #conservation #biodiversity
50 years of cassava diversity: what went into the bank, and what came out
Two new papers in Plants, published two months apart, tell the story of CIAT’s cassava genebank from opposite ends: how the collection was assembled and conserved, and what breeders have actually done...
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Soil to gut, it’s all one network, linking ecosystem function, food production and human health across the entire agri-food system. But if microbiomes matter that much, why not breed for them? agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/brai...
Brainfood: Biodiversity works through relationships
Plant diversity modifies multi-trophic interactions in croplands, grasslands and forests. Increasing plant diversity changes the interactions between plants, herbivores and their natural enemies, but ...
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Are gut biomes part of #agrobiodiversity? Or do we do need to draw the line somewhere? Do tell me... agro.biodiver.se/what-is-agro...
What Is Agrobiodiversity?
What Is Agrobiodiversity? Agrobiodiversity -- short for agricultural biodiversity -- encompasses all the living things that people use directly or indirectly for food and agriculture. That means plant...
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What's on the blog? -Brainfood: Weekly summaries of the literature -Nibbles: Quick roundups of #agrobiodiversity news -In depth analysis of papers, developments, events... -Shorter announcements and alerts agro.biodiver.se/what-is-agro...
What Is Agrobiodiversity?
What Is Agrobiodiversity? Agrobiodiversity -- short for agricultural biodiversity -- encompasses all the living things that people use directly or indirectly for food and agriculture. That means plant...
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Did you know posts come in categories, e.g.: Genebanks In situ conservation Indigenous knowledge Crop wild relatives Neglected species Breeding Livestock diversity Microbes Pollinators Domestication Genetic erosion Climate change Nutrition Scroll down: agro.biodiver.se/what-is-agro...
What Is Agrobiodiversity?
What Is Agrobiodiversity? Agrobiodiversity -- short for agricultural biodiversity -- encompasses all the living things that people use directly or indirectly for food and agriculture. That means plant...
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Crops made, and remade – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/crop... #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity #CropWildRelatives #genebanks #PlantBreeding #domestication
Crops made, and remade
Two new studies of very different crops – banana and chrysanthemum, of all things – end up telling surprisingly similar, deliciously complicated stories. For these crops, domestication was not once an...
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Nibbles: Mango breeding, Cambodian peppers, Cold genes, Geechee cowpea, Navajo genebank – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/nibb... #genebanks #PlantBreeding #HeritageSeeds #conservation #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity
Nibbles: Mango breeding, Cambodian peppers, Cold genes, Geechee cowpea, Navajo genebank
Blue mangoes. Kampot pepper. Antarctic flowering plant. Sapelo Island red pea. Navajo seed data.
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Putting names and faces to organic seed diversity – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/putt... #conservation #genebanks #seeds #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #OrganicAgriculture
Putting names and faces to organic seed diversity
LIVESEEDING is a project... ...to foster the growth of the organic sector and transition towards more sustainable local food systems by delivering high quality organic seed of diverse cultivars adjust...
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Is it me or are there more cassava products in Kenya these days?
