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tors, wild relatives …Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives … Menu Home About Subscribe Contact Posts Posted on May 10, 2024 Leaders of crop diversity conservation land World Food Prize Great to see a couple of my former bosses recognized for their exceptional contributions to the conservation on crop diversity . I like this quote from Geoff : This is really a chance to get that message out and say, look, this relatively small amount of money is our insurance policy, our insurance policy that we’re going to be able to feed the world in 50 years. Posted on May 3, 2024 May 3, 2024 Forgotten crops in the limelight The paperForgotten food crops in sub-Saharan Africa for healthy diets in a changing climate ” by Maarten van Zonneveld, Roeland Kindt, Stepha McMullin, Enoch G. Achigan-Dako, Sognigbé N’Danikou, Wei-hsun Hsieh, Yann-rong Lin, and Ian K. Dawson has won the PNAS 2023 Cozzarelli Prize for the best paper of the year in Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. Here’s the abstract: As the climate changes, major staple crop production in sub-Saharan Africa becomes increasingly vulnerable. Underutilized traditional food plants offer opportunities for diversifying cropping systems. In this study, the authors used climate niche modeling to assess the potential of 138 traditional food plants to diversify or replace staple crop production in sub-Saharan Africa by 2070. The authors report that staple crops may no longer be able to grow at approximately 10% of locations by 2070. Further, the authors identified 58 traditional crops that provide complementary micronutrient contents suitable for integration into staple cropping systems under current and projected climatic conditions. The results suggest that diversifying sub-Saharan African food production with underutilized crops could improve climate resilience and dietary health. And here’s a video explaining the results: Posted on May 3, 2024 May 3, 2024 A world farm, illustrated Benjamin Nowak, a French lecturer in agronomy with teaching and research activities focused on soil sciences and remote sensing for crop monitoring,” has a nice infographic showingwhat a large farm would look like, growing all the world’s crops .” Pretty cool. But where’s all the ganja? A high-resolution version is available . Posted on May 2, 2024 May 2, 2024 Colorado State PGR course runs again From Dr Pat Byrne, Professor Emeritus of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Colorado State University. Colorado State University Online will offer 3 one-credit courses in Fall 2024 on Plant Genetic Resources Conservation and Use . Courses are targeted to the upper undergraduate/graduate student level and can be taken sequentially or independently. Course instructors are Dr Geoff Morris (CSU), Dr Davina Rhodes (CSU), and Dr Gayle Volk (USDA-ARS). The courses are as follows: SOCR 501 – Plant Genetic Resources: Origins, Aug. 19 – Sep. 22. Discover the origins of plant genetic resources, their domestication and diversification, their genetic and genomic properties, and their vital role in global food systems. SOCR 502 – Plant Genetic Resources: Conservation, Sept. 23-Oct. 27. Examine the role of genebanks in the global effort to conserve plant genetic resources. Explore each step from collection to storage, regeneration, and distribution. SOCR 503 – Plant Genetic Resources: Discovery, Oct. 28-Dec. 8. Learn how breeders overcome the challenges of unadapted germplasm, how novel traits and genetic variants are discovered, and how they get from genebank to plant breeders, then on to farmers and consumers. For more information on course content, fees, and registration, visit PGRCourse.colostate.edu . Posted on April 11, 2024 Agricultural biodiversity conference and survey A couple of quick announcements today that I don’t want to get lost in Nibbles. First, there’s an International Conference on Agrobiodiversity going on in Nepal. I just found out about it, but it’s hybrid, so you can still join. Second, if you’re an expert on potatoes or sweet potatoes, consider taking this survey from CIP . Posts navigation Page 1 Page 2 … Page 1,240 Next page Search for: Search Fresh Nibbles Nice video celebrating seeds . Nice old video about Kew Gardens . Tracing the origins of Indonesian cassava . No, it wasn’t introduced by Kew, but yes, colonialism was involved. Latest data on where crops are grown . Including cassava. Self Help Africa director turns on to neglected crops . Including cassava. New lab in Kenya for spreading clean crops around. Including cassava? Türkiye’s genebank in the news. No cassava. Nepalese rice gets a Welsh upgrade. Collecting sugarcane in French Polynesia to (eventually) support local booze industry. Long live the ancient booze bandwagon. Garlic 101 . Published on April 30, 2024 Updates … delivered Subscribe in a feed reader Recent comments Dave Wood on Leaders of crop diversity conservation land World Food Prize Dave Wood on Forgotten crops in the limelight Paul Woolley on Nibbles: PlantSearch, Ranking apples, Pumpkin pix, Fruit pix, Livestock maps, Impact Roy Denton on Brainfood: Wild melon dispersal, Fertile Crescent domestications, Angiosperm threats, Wild rice alliance, Wild potato leaves, Brassica oleracea pangenome, Wild Vigna nutrients Roy Denton on What IS wrong with biofortification? Proudly powered by...