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 ...

The Quest to Save the World’s Most Coveted Chocolate is an engaging story in Smithsonian Magazine about Ecuador’s ancient, ...

Apples have been another recurring obsession on the blog, maybe because they make the conservation problem unusually tangible ...

I've been following the vineyards of Pompeii for quite a while, it turns out. Maybe because archaeology and wine are two of ...

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 ...

Cassava has been a persistent thread through this blog since the beginning. It first appears as a staple with a dark side: ...

Jeremy's latest Eat This Newsletter tackles cassava, the chestnut, rice and pears. But his coolest find is a website called ...

Land sparing is a seductive story. Farmers become more productive. We need less land to produce the same amount of food. The land we no longer need can be spared for nature. No need for that tricky ...

We all know that agrobiodiversity conservation happens both on farms and in genebanks. But it may be that the most interesting – and intractable – bit of the process may be what happens between those ...

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 ...

Land sparing is a seductive story. Farmers become more productive. We need less land to produce the same amount of food. The land we no longer need can be spared for nature. No need for that tricky ...

The League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development has taken the FAO global livestock distribution maps and added information on the pastoralist groups that keep each species. That ...