Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

There’s a rich oral history of African rice in Maroon communities, but that doesn’t mean either the traditional knowledge or diversity of the crop is safe. The Invisible Tropical Tuber Crop: Edible Aroids (Araceae) Sold as Tajer in the Netherlands. domestication in Mexico.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Across all of human history, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 6,000 plant species have been cultivated for food. In fact, two-thirds of total worldwide crop production is currently made up of just nine species, according to FAO data. We must remember: Saving seeds is saving culture.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Growing a greater variety of crops helps with climate adaptation and works as a mitigation measure as well. The wider range of these crops, the more stable the food supply. Securing seeds and equipment and building climate-smart infrastructure like greenhouses, requires funding.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Can seed exchange networks explain the morphological and genetic diversity in perennial crop species? Wild species can be used to improve the late blight tolerance of cultivated potatoes. Limited-transpiration trait in response to high vapor pressure deficit from wild to cultivated species: study of the Lens genus.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses. It’s a great gateway crop,” says Don DiLillo, owner of Finest Foods in Huntington, New York, for ushering in a new breed of novice farmers. I could triple [production] and still be able to operate it from my home,” says DiLillo.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This analysis found that AFRI has historically funded low levels of organic research, while the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) has been erratic in supporting organic research projects. This initiative trains future plant breeders and develops new crop varieties specifically suited for organic systems.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 26, 2024

Seeds for Resilience , a project of Crop Trust , is working to strengthen gene banks across sub-Saharan Africa. As these challenges intensify, it becomes increasingly difficult for crops to flourish. Gene banks are crucial in preserving crop diversity in these uncertain times.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

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Food Tank

MARCH 1, 2024

Especially in recent years, spending time with my hands in the soil—tending to seeds and seedlings—can feel beautiful and almost spiritual. To read more about Indigenous cultivation, check out Iwigara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science by Enrique Salmón. Where do you source seeds?

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Well, as it happens, my colleagues and I recently checked out a project the Crop Trust is supporting in Suriname that involves the regeneration and safety duplication in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault of Maroon rice varieties. Bambara groundnut), as seeds lost viability during the farmer’s absence.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 4, 2023

On most farms, a crop field is a timestamp that reflects a specific moment in a specific place. With their meticulously selected collection of approximately 1,300 crop varieties, farmers Zaid and Haifa Kurdieh have gathered generations of global agricultural activity on about 250 acres in Chenango County, New York.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 18, 2024

Diversifying the UK Agrifood System: A Role for Neglected and Underutilised Crops. On-farm crop diversity, conservation, importance and value: a case study of landraces from Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. Cultivating prosperity in Rwanda: the impact of high-yield biofortified bean seeds on farmers’ yield and income.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Water Adaptation In the desert, getting water to crops often requires irrigation. billion in payments from the agency’s crop insurance program).

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In this episode of Voices from the Field , NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Gabriella Soto-Velez talks with Bonnetta Adeeb, founder of Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, a nonprofit collective of BIPOC growers, farmers, and gardeners who cultivate and distribute heirloom seeds and grow culturally meaningful crops.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 23, 2023

Farmers Weekly Cereal growers are being urged to reduce the risk of aphid-borne barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) by controlling volunteer cereals through desiccation or cultivation well before drilling their next cereal crop.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

This year was a pretty hot and dry year, but still, some of the crops I raised did pretty well, he says with a satisfied smile. Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch or irrigation.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

They called the plants sisters to reflect how they thrived when they were cultivated together. They selected seeds for many different traits, such as flavor, texture and color. The first Europeans who reached the Americas were shocked at the abundant food crops they found. On reservations, U.S.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Seeds of knowledge: paving the way to integrated historical and conservation science research. Co-conserving Indigenous and local knowledge systems with seeds. Conserving the genetic diversity of domesticated species needs to combine traditional knowledge and seeds. Yes, definitely archaeology is needed too.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Crop species diversity: A key strategy for sustainable food system transformation and climate resilience. Cultivating success: Bridging the gaps in plant breeding training in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The Role of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces of Forage Legumes in Pre-Breeding as a Response to Climate Change.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a versatile crop, peanuts serve both human consumption and industrial uses, making them a key player in global food production. Peanuts farming involves the cultivation of peanut plants, which are legumes grown primarily for their edible seeds. This… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Peanuts Farming

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

After Floridas farmers harvest a wide array of summer crops, the fields do not lie dormant for long. Unlike much of the United States, where farming slows or halts during winter due to cold temperatures and snow, Florida’s mild climate allows for year-round cultivation.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

When it comes to precision farming, implement drift is one factor that can play havoc with field operations, such as planting and strip tillage, and the precise placement of seed and fertilizer and other inputs. Read More

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Legume crops are plants that belong to the family Fabaceae, commonly known as legumes. These crops are characterized by their unique seed pods, which contain ed

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Waving fields of wheat once stippled the sunny lands of San Diego County, but higher-value crops supplanted it more than a century ago. On a sparkling spring day in March, Ellis and a crew of volunteers gathered at Rio Del Rey Farm to pull weeds from rows of experimental dry-farmed wheat crops. He’s been collecting seeds for years. “I

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Food Tank

JULY 12, 2024

Unfortunately, he says, many crops, particularly Indigenous crops, have been lost over time and are no longer cultivated. As part of his project, which is supported by a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation, Johnson is bringing back traditional varieties of Hopi crops, planting them at three different locations.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Krishna Bista grew up on a diversified farm in her native Bhutan, where her family cultivated sweet potatoes, ginger, corn, wheat, millet, citrus and cardamom. For Doli Wikongo, a refugee farmer employee who grew up cultivating bananas and rice in her native Congo, New Leaf has been a lifeline.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2023

On this episode of The Sharp Edge, Jantzi and Maizex Seeds agronomist Henry Prinzen dig into the farm’s weed control strategy, which is designed to deliver high-yielding organic. Weed control in organic soybeans can be challenging but new technology is helping Brandon Jantzi and his family keep it clean at Janlan Farms near Baden, Ont.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Cereal crops are a type of grass cultivated for their edible seeds, known as grains. These crops play a vital role in global agriculture, providing food for bot

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. As kavas allure grows, so, too, have local restrictions. In Florida, the so-called U.S.

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Agric4profits

JULY 23, 2024

Millet spikelets are a fundamental component of the millet plant, which is a group of small-seeded grasses widely cultivated as cereal crops. These spikelets ar

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Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It is designed to work just 20mm deep to encourage volunteers and weed seeds to germinate without losing too much moisture from post-harvest stubbles. Farmers Weekly Part mulcher, part harrow is how German firm Saphir describes its novel Grindstar.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Meanwhile, research and plant breeding efforts are underway to explore and expand its potential as a sustainable low-input, high-value crop that could figure into the future of small farms throughout the eastern U.S. The Canadian NC1 ripens early, with fewer smooth black seeds than other varieties. A pawpaw tree in winter.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Corteva Announces Breakthrough in Wheat Technology November 18, 2024 In advance of its Investor Day, Corteva announced a breakthrough in one of the world’s most important staple crops – wheat – a first-of-its kind, proprietary non-GMO hybrid technology.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Mustard is an important crop grown for its seeds, which are used in the production of mustard oil, condiments, and spices. Mustard farming involves cultivating mustard plants that thrive in cool, temperate climates. It is a versatile plant with multiple uses in food and agriculture, offering great economic value to farmers.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Mattive family of Worley Family Farms has spent generations cultivating success in the San Luis Valley, and their story is one of resilience, dedication, and innovation. Through sustainable practices like crop rotation and soil management techniques, they ensure long-term productivity and the highest quality potatoes.

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