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Nibbles: Audacity of hops, Potato catalogues, Heirloom apples, Heirloom wheat, UK systematics, Millennial olives, CIAT celebrates, IITA in the news, Agrobiodiversity marketing awards, Insects in orchards, Quinoa

U. of Minnesota has a poster of the pedigree of hop varieties which I covet. Cool catalogue of the native potatoes of a bit of Ecuador. Via Red Electronica de la Papa. Stark photos of a few heirloom apples, with descriptions. Meanwhile, Brockwell Bake sows some heritage wheats. With stark photo Report on the state …

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Nibbles: KC Bansal, Mike Jackson, Spain strawberry genebank, Ho-Chunk maize, Heritage varieties, Roman apples, Hazelnut breeding, Old rye, Serbia grapevine herbarium, Horse domestication, Mt Vernon fruits, Worldwide Day of Botanical Art, Pre-colonial African agriculture

Prof. KC Bansal, who used to run the Indian national genebank, gets a much-deserved UNESCO honour. Friend-of-the-blog Dr Mike Jackson on running a rice genebank. UNESCO honour for him too? Spain’s strawberry genebank gets its 15 minutes. University and Native American nation collaborate on regenerating heritage corn varieties. The pros and cons of heritage varieties, …

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Nibbles: Ukraine genebank, Inequality, Olive breeding, Colorado apples, Indian rice diversity, Edible trees, Australian Grains Genebank

Spanish-language article about the effort to save Ukraine’s genebank. Report on “Reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition” from the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). They don’t say so explicitly, but genebanks can help with that. They can certainly help with …

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Nibbles: Calabrian citron, Cherokee seeds, Indigenous food systems & community seed bank in India, NZ apple diversity, Climate funding for food

Calabrians are growing citrons under solar panels to protect them from the heat. The Church of the Good Shepherd in Decatur, Alabama is growing seeds from the Cherokee Nation Seed Bank in its gardens, and that’s a sort of homecoming. The Indigenous agrobiodiversity and food systems of Meghalaya in India’s NE are helping local people …

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Brainfood: Human diversity, Wild rye, Caribbean cassava, Three Sisters, Old beer, Old apples, Feral crops, Crop resynthesis

Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers. Farmers may have pushed hunter-gatherers to the northern edge of Europe while also in mixing with them. Identification and exploitation of wild rye (Secale spp.) during the early Neolithic in the Middle Euphrates valley. Those Europeans on the move — both farmers and hunter-gatherers — would have …

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