I was vaguely aware of the Composite Cross II (CCII) long-term experiment in barley, not least because of a Brainfood entry a couple of years ago. But I didn't know a whole lot about it, so when a ...

I haven't yet had a chance to read the full FAO–WMO joint report on Extreme heat and agriculture, but some preliminary ...

Drawing on crop data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Compendium of Forgotten Foods in Africa, CAFRI calculated Nutrient Density (ND) scores for a broad range of African foods, a measure ...

Relocating is never any fun, but it's particularly tricky for collections of crop diversity. You have to get the new facilities all ready, and all those seeds or test tubes or indeed live plants need ...

A very interesting review in New Scientist makes the point that fungi were not for ancient humans the marginal resources that their near invisibility in the traditional archaeological record might ...