- Sweet potato cuttings to the rescue in Fiji. Hope there’s a nice mix of varieties.
- Quinoa: and so it begins.
- Filipinos not eating their fruits. Bad for Filipino health, no doubt bad for Filipino agrobiodiversity too.
- Maybe they should look to Cape Verde?
- ICARDA waxes poetic about lentils.
- Ecosystem services mapping projects go online. Or they will do, eventually. Just a survey for now. Should that include in situ CWR conservation projects? Now’s your chance to have your say.
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, animals, wild relatives ...
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Fresh Nibbles: May 17, 2013
<- click to comment- Nice piece from NPR on the coffee genebank in Costa Rica and the importance of breeding for resistance to coffee rust. Where’s the diversity for that going to come from, you ask?
- Weird piece from NPR on why humans took up farming. Hard to swallow.
- At least in India and Uganda, men and women use trees differently, and have different access. Good to know.
- “David Byrne receives national 2013 Carroll R. Miller Award for peach research.” Settle down! Not that David Byrne.
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
And easy access to the Brainfood Archive.
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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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