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Author: Luigi Guarino

Posted on February 2, 2009February 2, 2009

Nibbles: Cheese, Seed squared, Nutrition journal, Wild boar, Bees, Local breeds, Pest, Wild goat

  • Mozzarella madness.
  • Homegrown Evolutionist spreads his seed.
  • There’s an International Seed Swap Day of Action? And we missed it?
  • The new AJFAND is out.
  • Brits belatedly bring back boars, but bumble bee buggered.
  • Improving local livestock breeds in Zambia: VOA tells us how and why.
  • Not armyworm after all.
  • Cloning the ibex: close, but no cigar.
Posted on February 1, 2009February 2, 2009

The Tale of the Bizzarria

I totally agree with the Evil Fruit Lord that the story of the periclinal citrus chimera known as Bizzarria is both fascinating and very well told over at Home Citrus Growers. I know what I’ll be doing the next time I’m in Florence.

Posted on February 1, 2009February 1, 2009

Nibbles: Vanilla, Bhutan, Oca, Satoyama

  • Vanilla domestication 101.
  • Bhutan ponders biodiversity database. We say: Don’t forget the crops, people.
  • “Crap crops of the Incas.” One man’s on-off relationship with oca.
  • Satoyama: Japan’s Secret Water Garden. A different approach to rice.

Posted on January 30, 2009January 31, 2009

Confusion at New Scientist

The New Scientist’s blogger manages to confuse the Svalbard Global Seed Vault with the Millennium Seed Bank. I guess it was inevitable.

LATER: No, it wasn’t me that left that first, rude comment! And I’m offended that you think it might have been.

Posted on January 30, 2009

Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. What’s wrong with supermarkets.
    2. Cate Blanchett on the Millennium Seed Bank. Attitude to supermarkets unknown.
    3. Access & Benefit Sharing 101. Cate Blanchett unavailable for comment.
    4. Experts weigh in on how we should change how we eat. Nobody but Cate Blanchett will listen, but supermarkets and seeds feature, for what it’s worth.
    5. How they ate in the Middle Ages without supermarkets. Or at least harvested.
    6. After we’re done with medieval haymaking, let’s bring back the aurochs too. And put it in a supermarket?
    7. Yeah but what is a breed anyway? Or an aurochs, for that matter.

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