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Author: Luigi Guarino

Posted on June 22, 2007

Garlic in the press

The beginning of a panic about the garlic deficit with China? Via Food Museum Blog.

Posted on June 22, 2007

Potholes on the Tequila Trail

Tequila vs maize in the homeland of both.

Posted on June 22, 2007June 22, 2007

From a cold and wet Addis Ababa

I’m spending the week here for work and could not resist the temptation to do some advertising for Ethiopia’s Institute of Biodiversity Conservation, one of the world’s premier genebanks. So check out their website. And read a bit about them in the news.

Posted on June 21, 2007

Controlling bacterial wilt

Another reason why intercropping is a good idea.

Posted on June 21, 2007

Chicken maps

Global chicken density maps, courtesy of ILRI, my hosts for this week.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agrobiodiversity inspires tourism in the Andes of Peru.
    2. South African fruit exporters does its (small) bit for heirloom apple conservation.
    3. Wild tea doing just fine in the Shunhuangshan National Nature Reserve in Hunan Province, China. Even when harvested by local communities. Looks great for tourism too.
    4. Native communities in Nebraska getting some support for saving and exchanging seeds.
    5. Women are in charge of chiles in Tamil Nadu.
    6. Popular Science does genebanks. At least one genebank has tourism potential, I’d say.
    7. Want to support forest landscape restoration through native tree planting in Kenya? Go to MyFarmTrees, and help keep Kenya a tourism hotspot.

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