Luigi Guarino & Jeremy Cherfas on crops, livestock, bugs, food, drink... See also Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog ☕️🍺🍠🍌🥑🍆🌶️🌽 🌻🍏 Views our own
Rome & Bonn, also Nairobi
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An 18th-century treatise by coffee enthusiast Benjamin Moseley, arguing for the drink's multitude of benefits when it was still relatively new to Europe: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
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Wolves have made a spectacular comeback in Europe. But attacks on livestock and humans have caused a heated debate about the limits of coexistence.
Learn more: scim.ag/4oNnWa4
ALT Map of wolf populations in Europe, with 9 distinct populations color-coded and labeled: Scandinavian, Karelian, Baltic, Central European, Carpathian, Dinaric-Balkan, Italian Peninsula, Alpine, and Iberian.
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Opportunity crops can help diversify diets and strengthen climate resilience. But limited access to quality seed keeps many farmers from growing them.
Tune in later today at #COP17 as the Crop Trust’s Sarada Krishnan and partners explore 6 policy priorities for turning this potential into action: from conserving crop diversity to improving variety registration and seed delivery.
🌱 Unlocking opportunity crops for healthy diets and climate resilience
🗓️ Today, Monday 26 October | 16:00, Yerevan time
📍 @CGIAR Pavilion, Blue Zone
Watch online: events.cgiar.org/unlockingop…
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'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to a puree.
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Crop diversity connects countries worldwide.
The Treaty’s Multilateral System has made more than 2.6 million holdings available, enabled over 111 000 Standard Material Transfer Agreements and supported the transfer of almost 7 million samples.
Stay tuned for more at #COP17 ⬇️
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2026 is the International Year of the Woman Farmer 👩🌾
Women farmers are at the heart of agrifood systems, strengthening food security, protecting biodiversity and building resilience.
🌐👉 fao.org/woman-farmer-2026/en
#IYWF2026
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🌾 Ukraine has deposited 773 seed samples from 10 crop collections in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. This builds on work by FAO and partners, with EU funding, to safeguard the country's crop diversity and help strengthen global food security for generations to come.
Brainfood: Ancient Madagascar cattle, American bison, Tibetan yaks, Korean silkworms, European cattle genomic selection, Slovenian cattle footprint, Nigerian ponds, African swine fever in Asia – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/10/bra…
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🌍 Across 29 countries, more than 100 Globally Important #AgriculturalHeritage Systems showcase centuries of knowledge, agrobiodiversity and resilience.
Have you discovered #GIAHS yet?
👉 fao.org/giahs/en
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South Africa's wine industry still carries the legacy of apartheid. This #BlackHistoryMonth, we're celebrating businesses helping to build a fairer future.
In 2025, @coopukpress generated £680,000+ in Fairtrade Premium through its Fairtrade wine sales.
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During the 1950s the photographer Haga Hideo captured traditional folk festivals in Fukushima Prefecture. Now the memories in his work have come back home.
nippon.com/en/guide-to-japan…
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La Princesa de Asturias recibe en audiencia a Nils Kristen Sandtrøen, ministro de Agricultura y Alimentación de Noruega; Lene Krøl Andersen, directora ejecutiva de NordGen; y Stefan Schmitz, director ejecutivo de Crop Trust, representantes de la Bóveda Global de Semillas de Svalbard, Premio Princesa de Asturias de Cooperación Internacional.
Un reconocimiento a una iniciativa que protege la diversidad agrícola del planeta y preserva un legado esencial que contribuye a garantizar la alimentación de las generaciones futuras.
©FPA
@CasaReal @GlobalSeedVault @CropTrust @NordGen
#PremiosPrincesadeAsturias #PrincessofAsturiasAwards #BóvedaGlobaldeSemillasSvalbard #CooperaciónInternacional #InternationalCooperation #SvalbardGlobalSeedVault
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Safeguarding crop diversity for future generations!
ICRISAT’s Genebank has deposited 1,868 accessions (800 sorghum and 1,068 pearl millet) at the @ICARDA Genebank in Rabat, Morocco, strengthening the long-term conservation of valuable crop genetic resources.
With this deposit, ICRISAT has achieved 93% first-level safety duplication of its collection, ensuring greater security for these vital genetic resources and keeping them available for future research, crop improvement and climate-resilient agriculture.
@CGIAR @CropTrust
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Ghana advances bean breeding!🇬🇭 Drought-tolerant Asibuo (SEF 47) & PABRA (SEF 55), released in 2025, & Ennepa for canning could boost incomes & nutrition in the cowpea-dominated North. PABRA Academy’s Maxwell Lamptey works on genomic selection, as @CSIR_crops conserves germplasm.
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Did you know that biodiversity is essential for food security and nutrition?
Discover 5️⃣ reasons why biodiversity is vital for agrifood systems, and why protecting it matters.
👉Learn more about FAO's work on biodiversity: fao.org/biodiversity/en
#COP17Armenia
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DID YOU KNOW? 🌱
#Biofortification uses plant breeding to increase the levels of essential nutrients in crops.
Think #iron beans, #zinc wheat and #vitaminA-rich orange-fleshed sweet potato.
Better nutrition can begin with the seed!
#HarvestPlus #Biofortification
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High in the Arctic, the @GlobalSeedVault stores seeds from genebanks around the world, helping protect crop diversity and contributing to the conservation of agricultural biodiversity.
Did you know these benefits of Svalbard's Seed Vault?
#COP17Armenia #ItAllStartsWithTheSeed
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How can plant diversity build more resilient food systems?
Join us at #CBDCOP17 on 28 October to explore how we can mobilize plant genetic diversity for food security and resilience.
📅 13:15–14:45 | 📍 Ashtarak, NGOs Group meeting room
🔗 Livestream: allbiociat.org/3VZeUwk
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Senior Scientist- Genebank Management
To view the full job requirements and qualifications, please apply through the following link:
biosaline.org/vacancies/seni…
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3/ One example shared was Peru’s Potato Park, where smallholder farmers conserve native potato varieties thru’ traditional knowledge & agroecological practices.
It illustrates how food production can support genetic diversity.
@biovision_org #Landscapes4Life
