Luigi Guarino – Page 1165 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

October 26, 2007

Hottest chili pepper in the world

Bhut Jolokia is a hottie.

October 26, 2007

Agrobiodiversity trade route could attract tourists

Travel the Frankincense Route. Three Wise Men unavailable for comment.

October 26, 2007October 25, 2007

Pumpkins are good for you

Happy (and nutritious) Halloween!

October 25, 2007

Natural history collection seeks contributions

Boffins keen to get hands on pubic lice. Everybody unavailable for comment.

October 24, 2007October 23, 2007

Ecosystems and Poverty

Our friend Andy Jarvis of Bioversity/CIAT is off and running with his blog on Ecosystems and Poverty. It’s part of the Ecosystems Services & Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) project. Your RSS feed is in our reader, Andy. Welcome to the blogosphere.

1. Haga Hideo’s 1950s photos of Fukushima farming rituals are now being used to revive them: ex situ conservation, but for culture.
2. Long before photography, or “pre‑breeding” was a buzzword, Belgian pomologist Jean‑Baptiste Van Mons was running massive pear selection trials and gifting us Beurré Bosc and Doyenné Boussock.
3. As Southern Africa’s miombo woodlands shrinks, scientists are cloning wild trees so the fruit — and food security — outlive the forest. Now for the pre-breeding.
4. Greenpeace Africa’s Seed Project makes the case for indigenous seeds as a route to farmer independence. And you can help.
5. And oh so coincidentally, a network of community seed banks in Kenya is rescuing indigenous seeds so the diversity is still around when opportunity (or crisis) knocks.
6. Also in Kenya, the national genebank’s collectors are racing to secure opportunity crops.
7. Nepal’s indigenous crops and landraces are at the same time more needed than ever, and under threat. So, much like in Kenya.
8. The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT says women are at the center of sustainable food systems; the fine print adds: “as they have always been.”
Published on September 30, 2026