Ok gonna live tweet Zac's #DownToEarthWithZacEfron Ep. 5 on @netflix over lunch now netflix.com/title/80230601 Bunch of introductory stuff about apples, which misses out on the whole bear story, which is a pity agro.biodiver.se/2016/05/the-ad…

Thought I'd tweet about a cool feature of @GenesysPGR, the online portal to #genebank accessions. 1/n The use case I'll consider today is: I have an accession I like. Show me all other accessions which come from a similar climate. 2/n

@Peter_CaliCol @BiovIntCIAT_eng And here are the staff of the @GenebankICRISAT harvesting peanuts @Peter_CaliCol @BiovIntCIAT_eng @GenebankICRISAT Including the @ICRISAT DG

How Do We Preserve the Vanishing Foods of the Earth? lithub.com/how-do-we-pres… Let me count the ways...

The @CIAT_ /@CropTrust indicator of "Comprehensiveness of conservation of socioeconomically as well as culturally valuable species" is up on the @BIPIndicators website bipindicators.net/indicators/com… @CIAT_ @CropTrust @BIPIndicators Here's a recent blog post on the indicator blog.ciat.cgiar.org/wild-coffee-pl…

Also in Spanish blog.ciat.cgiar.org/es/las-plantas…

45 scientists & policy wonks are meeting this week in Addis Ababa to make sure their agricultural research/development programs are run in compliance with national/international ABS laws and regulations. The meeting is coordinated by @CGIAR Genebank Platform and @ILRI. 1/n @CGIAR @ILRI ABS=access to biodiversity and sharing of benefits arising from its use. That means the @UNBiodiversity Nagoya Protocol, the @planttreaty and relevant national regulations. 2/n

Time for a thread I think. You may have seen the @hbriggs piece on @BBCWorld @BBCBreaking about the rice #genebank bbc.com/news/science-e… Or the tweets from @CropTrust