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Author: Luigi Guarino

Posted on November 29, 2007

Unconventional wine-making

Grapes? We don’t need no stinkin’ grapes. To make wine, that is.

Posted on November 28, 2007

Bringing back a wild relative

Aurochsen. Tarpans. Nazis. Wait, Nazis?

Posted on November 28, 2007

Hittite plague explained

Hittites “used infected sheep as biological weapon.”

Posted on November 27, 2007July 15, 2021

African Coffee Research Network endures

Having been in at the birth of the African Coffee Research Network fifteen years ago or whenever it was, it’s nice to see them making the mainstream African press. On the other hand, the list of things they are planning to do looks remarkably like the one we came up with at the early meetings. Fifteen years ago.

Posted on November 27, 2007

Sacred cows

India has lost half its 27 cattle breeds?

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. The Cayman Islands bets on a genebank of coconut diversity.
    2. The Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT’s genebank bets on growth cabinets to save picky wild bean.
    3. IITA bets on stakeholders to build a better Bambara groundnut. And its genebank, presumably.
    4. The Australian Seed Bank Partnership bets on, well, seeds.
    5. The UAE bets on a PGRFA law.
    6. Ethiopia bet on a national genebank 50 years ago.
    7. People have been betting on the chagra in the Amazon for 4,500 years.

    Published on June 26, 2026

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