Two recent stories about Indigenous seed rematriation sparked some reminiscing, and a reflection about what genebanks might need to do differently. In ...

The “nutrient collapse” story has been doing the rounds for years, and we’ve been picking at it on the blog for almost as long. Back in 2009, ...

At least, not in any biological sense. No plant is born an “opportunity crop.” It becomes one when somebody finds a way to make its particular ...

Opinion by James Alix Michel (victoria, seychelles)Wednesday, August 26, 2026Inter Press Service VICTORIA, Seychelles, August 26 (IPS) - Across this vast ...

The Gulf Coast is a biodiversity hot spot – and methane gas (LNG) is threatening all of it.  Over 15,000 documented species live in or travel through ...

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 ...

The global conversation about biodiversity finance is still too often framed around one question: how do we mobilize more money for nature? But that’s ...

As chance would have it, following my recent speculative foray into the possible connection between language and crop diversity, an essay by the great ...

I want to put up another quick post on the theme of innovative marketing of so-called “opportunity crops” in Kenyan supermarkets. Yesterday it ...

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