The Centro de Conservación de la Biodiversidad Agrícola de Tenerife (CCBAT) has a Facebook page on which they have just announced the release of an attractive new poster of bean diversity, reproduced here. There’s also one about potatoes. And a book summarizing traditional diversity in all the crops.
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, animals, wild relatives ...
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Fresh Nibbles: May 25, 2013
<- click to comment- Why blogging has been light this week. And also, which resulted in this. Thirsty work …
- Which is why I love our new hosts (see above).
- There’s gotta be some of these around here.
- I know there’s a lot of these. And I have to say I prefer the beer.
- And as for the sort of things this guy made…
- I wonder how many crop wild relatives there are around here though.
- Ok, that’s all from here for now, but see you again soon.
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
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Featured Comment May 13, 2013
Some very good news from Mohamed Amar, head of the Egyptian Deserts Gene Bank:
I can confirm that we have been rebuilding the Egyptian deserts gene bank in new form during the year and a half.
Here’s hoping we get more information soon.
Updates … delivered
- Jeremy Cherfas: Thanks. I hope you don't mind me editing some spurious details out of your comment?
- Mr Spam: Amazing roundup – such as some weblogs I’d never seen before. Wish we get some new frequent members – the ...
- Dag Endresen: For some further background, I found the some further information and the written script for the movie in the NGB/NordGen ...
- Dag Endresen: Yes, I also found these old videos really fascinating. Roland von Bothmer knows Ulf Gyllensten and made some further steps ...
- Srimathie Dissanayake: Thank you for all of your work!
- What's Nick Eating: Thanks for this very insightful breakdown. It's quite obvious that Bythman feeds off of misinformation about quinoa and the fact ...
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