I don't know much about Thai cooking. So when I came across a "furore" (no less) over some new varieties of something called ...

The newsletter of the Community of Practice on Africa Forgotten and Underutilized Food Commodities just recycled a digest of ...

The Quest to Save the World’s Most Coveted Chocolate is an engaging story in Smithsonian Magazine about Ecuador’s ancient, iconic Nacional cacao. It was published three years ago, but I only just came ...

Farmers conserve and improve the crop diversity around them. They have been doing it for millennia. Their livelihoods depend on it. But how much more might they be able to do? Consider the coconut.

Apples have been another recurring obsession on the blog, maybe because they make the conservation problem unusually tangible, and immediate. Pretty much everyone thinks they know what an apple is, ...

Are eucalyptus plantations good or bad? I’ve been wondering about this one for a while. Back in 2010, I wrote about my mother-in-law’s eucalypts near Limuru in Kenya. She had been tending and ...

We used to link quite a bit to Plant Cuttings, Nigel Chaffey’s monthly column in the international scientific journal Annals of Botany. It was also shared on Botany One, a weblog run by the publisher ...

It seems every new website these days is a hub or an academy. The latest example that has come across my desk is the Seed Knowledge Hub developed by the Erasmus+ project Seeds of Growth: Strengthening ...

Carolina Gold is another one of those stories that we kept coming back to, and that I now want to recap as part of our anniversary celebrations. Before the U.S. Civil War, Carolina Gold was the ...

After the recent worrying announcement about the USDA closing the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, there may now be some good news. US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has just ...

I’ve been celebrating 20 years of the blog with deep dives into its past, focusing on my favourite recurring themes. I did one post a day for a week, but I could have gone on for a month, I reckon. By ...

It turns out that if you keep a blog going long enough, you start to notice that you’re not so much writing new posts as filing updates to old ones. Looking back over two decades of the blog, a few ...