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Author: Luigi Guarino

Posted on October 3, 2007October 3, 2007

Wild blueberries thrive in Canada

Climate change causes blueberry war.

Posted on October 3, 2007October 3, 2007

Farmer breeder wants to patent variety

The story of Sebastian Joseph, Kerala farmer, who developed a great new variety of cardamom, but doesn’t think he has profited from it as much as he should have.

Posted on October 3, 2007

World Development special issue

Property Rights, Collective Action, and Local Conservation of Genetic Resources.

Posted on October 2, 2007

Alfred H. Peet dies

The “grandfather of specialty coffee” goes to the big caffè in the sky.

Posted on October 2, 2007

Italian fruit on show

Blast, I missed the Mostra Pomologica!

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and…
    2. …Cate Blanchett.
    3. Or read about it in The Economist.
    4. Or watch a nice video.
    5. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers.
    6. How to get stuff out of the NPGS.
    7. Laurajean Lewis: from an NPGS genebank to CIMMYT’s.
    8. I’m sure she and Chris Mujjabi will get to know each other soon.
    9. Diane Ragone: Not all genebanks are seed banks.
    10. Not a lot of breadfruits in Belgium but, surprisingly, lots of bananas.

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