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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. A little more safety for Ukraine’s seeds, thanks to a new genebank.
    2. A little more safety for Mexico’s native maize, thanks to Pres. Sheinbaum.
    3. A little more safety for Andean agriculture, thanks to Ecuadorian Indigenous women and Inside Mater in Peru.
    4. A little more safety for Ischia’s zampognaro bean and Amalfi’s lemons, thanks to local people (and GIAHS).
    5. A little more safety for Pacific crops, thanks to cryopreservation. Breadfruit next?
    6. A little more safety for moringa? At least in Africa with all its “opportunity crops”?

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