{"id":7076380,"date":"2026-10-05T02:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7076380"},"modified":"2026-10-05T02:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:30:57","slug":"the-bit-in-between-agricultural-biodiversity-weblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7076380","title":{"rendered":"The bit in between \u2013 Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We all know that agrobiodiversity conservation is done, in its different ways, both on farms and in genebanks. But it may be that the most interesting \u2013 and intractable \u2013 bit of the process is what happens between those places.<\/p>\n<p>A new IIED report, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iied.org\/22760iied\">Nature Nurture: How to keep agrobiodiverse forest and farm systems alive in the modern world<\/a><\/em>, looks at local collective community organisations in Indonesia, the Philippines and Tanzania and how they support on-farm conservation and use of crop diversity. In Tanzania, community seed banks lend seed to farmers, who return it after harvest; seed exchanges have brought previously little known local varieties into the banks. In the Philippines, a demonstration farm maintains traditional sweetpotato varieties for distribution. In Indonesia, producer groups run nurseries while much seed management remains in farmers\u2019 hands.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer-run seed banks, demonstration farms and nurseries give communities ways to organise for themselves the conservation and use of crop diversity. That\u2019s great. But what if something goes wrong? A crop disappears from a village. A variety falls out of use in a district. A community seed bank loses its stock. And what if a variety being maintained in one place could be useful somewhere else, perhaps very far away?<\/p>\n<p>This is where the bit in between comes into play.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nature Nurture<\/em> has very little to say about how seeds and knowledge move to and fro between farmers and community organisations on one side and formal genebanks on the other. It recognizes their complementarity, but deals with it in a single sentence: \u201cWhile ex-situ conservation remains an important safeguard against genetic erosion, the farmer-led and Indigenous systems that actively sustain agrobiodiversity within living production landscapes must have greater recognition and investment.\u201d That\u2019s all true, but somehow insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>The report does promise practical guidance for collective organisations in its next phase. How they can connect with national genebanks would be a good place to start. Meanwhile, though, national genebanks should be doing the same. Maybe by re-thinking their information systems, as I <a href=\"https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/2026\/09\/restarting-the-relationship-with-seeds\/\">suggested a few days ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that agrobiodiversity conservation is done, in its different ways, both on farms and in genebanks. 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