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Posted on April 2, 2009

Nibbles: Mopane, Evolution, Cacao

  • Food shopping in Harare includes dried caterpillars by the sackful. Luigi says: “Yum”.
  • Carnival of Evolution #10 at The Oyster’s Garter. Jeremy says: “Yum”.
  • Ecological cacao. We all say: “Yum”.
Posted on March 30, 2009March 30, 2009

Nibbles: Soil diversity, Coffee, Ants, Haskap, Biochar

  • “Spreading antibiotics in the soil affects microbial ecosystems“. No shit.
  • Drink more (Rwandan) coffee. What about the other coffee countries?
  • Cane toad nemesis: meat ants. Eeyew.
  • 1st Virtual International Scientific Conference On Lonicera caerulea L. Via .
  • The biochar backlash. Oliver snips and links.
Posted on March 23, 2009

Happy birthday to me!

And thanks to Charlotte for a present which brings together two pretty cool bits of agrobiodiversity.
cannabis

Posted on March 21, 2009

Nibbles: Coconut, Gene flow

  • Pacific coconuts need replanting. Quick, alert the media!
  • Bees don’t just fly down the rows. Quick, alert the media!
Posted on March 17, 2009

Nibbles: Beer, Alice Walters, Soils, Coconuts

  • Cassava beer: what’s not to like?
  • A food guru speaks. We listen.
  • “By 2020, 30% of the world’s arable land may be salinated.”
  • A coconut renaissance in India?

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Fresh Nibbles

    • All of IFAD’s 5 investments that will help nourish the world involve crop diversity. Well I never.
    • And yet we still have to have articles on communicating the importance of genebanks.
    • Cosmos tries to do it by pointing to the science.
    • Smithsonian Magazine tries to do it by saying it’s tricky.
    • Genebanks try to do it by having nice new websites and talking to the media. Some of the biggest media.
    • CGIAR tries to do it by calling them an Accelerator.
    • IIED tries to do it by saying even botanic gardens can help farmers.
    • SwissAid thinks “[n]ational and international gene banks should give farmers’ organizations low-threshold access to their collections.” No argument there.
    • Maybe we should have songs about genebanks, like the Maxakali have about the Atlantic Forest.
    • Or we could just talk about food, food, glorious food.
    • Could also just fall back on the good old canonical lost-heirloom-apple-found story.
    • Or the canonical medical case for “ancient grains” story.
    • Though even there the heirlooms vs hybrids debate will rage I suppose…
    • But, whatever we do, let’s not take it to extremes, shall we?

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