Cooking – Page 178 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

July 18, 2007July 18, 2007

Moringa recipe

Got drumstick (Moringa oleifera) leaves? Here’s a recipe.

July 12, 2007July 12, 2007

Thai food

BBC photo essay on Thai insect-based street food.

Archaeology of chili peppers

Remains of oldest Mexican takeaway found.

July 6, 2007July 7, 2007

Millet beer froths up

A technological innovation revives traditional home brew in Uganda.

Absinthe explained

One of the more interesting uses of agricultural biodiversity.

1. Times of India says “India needs a new doomsday seed vault.” Why not just use the one already there in Svalbard?
2. Meanwhile, women in the Sundarban are doing it for themselves.
3. Maybe it’s community doomsday seed vaults that India needs?
4. Fiji’s cassava is facing a doomsday of its own.
5. Georgia — the country — is working on a documentary on crop diversity which will no doubt include their seed deposit in Svalbard.
6. Kenya has a pretty good community genebanks video of its own.
7. Nigeria is all over crop diversity. Not just once, but twice.
8. Coffee prices going up? Can you imagine what will happen if we don’t conserve enough of its diversity?
9. Want more examples of the coolness of crop diversity and its guardians? Slow Food has your back.
10. La Via Campesina needs to encouragement either, where “peasant seeds” and their guardians are concerned.
11. Even the World Economic Forum wants in on the act.
12. And yet the seed sector seems…reluctant?
13. Good job Genesys is getting faster, eh?
Published on June 2, 2025