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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

Crops, animals, wild relatives ...

May 2011

Using ancient grains to remap perceptions of Central Asia

by Luigi on May 31, 2011

The 8th annual Great Lakes Indigenous Farming Conference passes us by

by Luigi on May 30, 2011

Brainfood: Cabbages, Crops in Darfur, Sowing dates, People and biodiversity, Honeybees, Rhizobium, Figs, Urban ag, Wild olives, Ancient textiles, Ducks, Wheat introgression, Food citizenship, Crop models, Trifolium, Variety choice

by Jeremy on May 30, 2011

Bill Gates on the BBC on agriculture

by Luigi on May 30, 2011

More pain

by Luigi on May 30, 2011

Science prize opens for nominations

by Jeremy on May 29, 2011

The pleasures and frustrations of combining biodiversity data

by Luigi on May 28, 2011

Snow White and the Four Coconut Types

by Luigi on May 27, 2011

Collecting germplasm in the Iraqi desert

by Luigi on May 27, 2011

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Fresh Nibbles: January 27, 2012 : <- click to comment

  • My favorite agriculture blogs. Can you say “parochial”?
  • Want to track Geographical Indicators? Look no further.
  • India’s agriculture magazine tackles Agro-Biodiversity For Food Security.
  • And GFAR promotes a new initiative to realise the benefits of agrobiodiversity. Love is all around.
  • National Plant Genetics Resources Laboratory (NPGRL) at the University of the Philippines at Los Baños checks in to rehab.
  • Bioversity scientist plays with fire, for better and more diverse forest regeneration.
  • Mutation breeding; Matt explains the lack of breakthroughs in a bit more detail.
  • Fabulous, complex story of spiders, flies and microbes. Add ‘em together for green flypaper.

Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.

And easy access to the Brainfood Archive.

Featured Comment: January 23, 2012

We don’t get many comments on Nibbles, but the book Diane Ragone points to is definitely worth noting.

Check out Angela Kepler & Frank Rust’s new book “The World of Bananas in Hawaii: Then and Now”.

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  • January 27, 2012: J.Giles Waines commented on Any crops, or crop wild relatives, in the eastern Andes?
  • January 27, 2012: sanaa commented on Looking for low saturated fat sunflowers
  • January 25, 2012: Lee commented on Pocket pigs
  • January 25, 2012: Matt commented on How long does it really take to do mutation breeding?
  • January 25, 2012: Mike Jackson commented on How long does it really take to do mutation breeding?
  • January 25, 2012: Jacob commented on Genebanks forgotten, again
  • January 25, 2012: Jeremy commented on Contract farming is good for you — official
  • January 25, 2012: Marc F. Bellemare commented on Contract farming is good for you — official
  • January 25, 2012: Ruben Palacio commented on Brainfood: Ag vs biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Genomic association, Diversity and productivity in forests, Increasing diversity
  • January 24, 2012: Fatma commented on New journal on Food Security
  • Mutation breeding: still a long shot
  • How long does it really take to do mutation breeding?
  • Genebanks forgotten, again
  • Contract farming is good for you — official
  • Looking for low saturated fat sunflowers
  • EU seed law in turmoil?
  • Brainfood: Ag vs biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Genomic association, Diversity and productivity in forests, Increasing diversity
  • Telling it like it is for rice in Nepal
  • European Botanic Gardens Congress calling for papers one last time
  • Celebrating the donkey
  • Egyptian genebank looted
  • Mixing it up for organic tomatoes
  • Germplasm documentation is a two way street
  • Latest on the Egyptian Deserts Gene Bank
  • How grafting a plum tree led to an obsession
  • Using data to inform nutrition security policy
  • The quinoa story: it’s complicated
  • Forests at your service: lessons from Kibale
  • Breadfruit roundup
  • Not all Andean tubers are potatoes

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