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Author: Luigi Guarino

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

Don’t forget to vote!

Posted on January 30, 2009

Call for info

Got any information on the effect of climate change on heritage apples? Barbara Tremain-Howard over at Fruit Forum would like to hear from you.

Posted on January 29, 2009

Input subsidies to the rescue

Input Subsidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution. Denning G, Kabambe P, Sanchez P, Malik A, Flor R, et al. PLoS Biology Vol. 7, No. 1, e23.

Silver bullet, or propaganda?

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. In the UK, Herefordshire’s Museum of Cider is picking up national recognition for its genebank of heritage apple trees. The BBC’s canonical autumnal apple story comes a little early this year.
    2. Speaking of iconic apples, Kazakhstan is scaling up efforts to bring back the Aport, the giant heirloom that once made Almaty famous. No word of museums, though. Or cider.
    3. Over in the Philippines, Department of Environment and Natural Resources is beefing up its rattan genebank to keep pace with demand, with forest stewards in Bukidnon planting seedlings to match. Furniture makers need genebanks as much as cider makers.
    4. Sri Lanka’s pre-Green Revolution heirloom rice varieties, purana haal, are being eyed for their resilience and disease-management potential. Good thing they’re in the national genebank.
    5. Saudi Arabia’s Jazan terraced coffee farms are turning into rural and ecotourism hotspots, proving not all agrobiodiversity needs to be in a genebank to survive. But it helps.

    Published on August 9, 2026

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