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Brainfood: Domestication treble, Introgression treble, Biodiversity mapping double, Oak conservation, Niche modelling double

Agricultural Biodiversity

Plant domestication and agricultural ecologies. Plants cultivated for ecosystem restoration can evolve toward a domestication syndrome. Plants cultivated for ecosystem restoration can evolve toward a domestication syndrome. Ok, maybe 8. Diamonds in the Not-So-Rough: Wild Relative Diversity Hidden in Crop Genomes.

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Seeds from Wild Crop Relatives Could Help Agriculture Weather Climate Change

Civil Eats

The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else. These cultivated teparies are nutrient and protein dense and far more climate resilient than the much more common pinto bean.

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124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

Food Tank

Black Urban Growers , United States Black Urban Growers (BUGs) is dedicated to fostering a robust community that supports cultivators in urban and rural environments, while nurturing Black leadership. This year, they were the recipient of the Pax Natura Foundation’s annual environmental prize.

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