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Nibbles: I say potato, CATIE genebank, Wat, Teff war, Digitizing collections, Black History Month, Crop stats

Genebanks, crop wild relatives, friends, even a cool title — this one has it all: The New Potato.
Latest on the CATIE seed collection.
The wonder of Ethiopian food.
Which I guess can include teff again now.
Digitizing the Smithsonian — fast.
George Washington Carver celebrated.
Oh look, there’s a new version of SPAM. Let the GISsing begin.

Susan Bragdon and others on what Trump’s agricultural trade war with China really means.
Meanwhile, in Tucson…
What we need is Smart Foods.
The cheese history video we’ve all been waiting for.
Wild eggplants at WorldVeg.

Telegraph op-ed on agricultural biodiversity. Yeah, you read that right.
No, avocado does not come from the Aztec’s word for testicles. It’s the other way around.
Why honey is a keeper.
Mapping the hell out of pigs.
Photo database to help tell bananas apart.
Deconstructing the Tragedy of the Commons.
The C footprint of your diet.
“We can spare 50 percent and share the rest.”
Cave man caviar.
Whiskey with that?
Potato wild relatives and food security.
Cassava and food security. No word on its wild relatives.
Wales finds a new apple.
Maybe someone will take a cool picture of it.
Potatoes were always for the masses. Ok, but not sure anyone ever thought otherwise, though.
Grapes, on the other hand…
The cuisines of Africa get their shot.
Some of those will go well with craft beer.
Agricultural heritage list gets saffron and argan. Bet they go together well.
Maybe wild kiang tea will get there too someday.
Or the Aboriginal Australians. Not really agriculturalists, but still.
Is this alpaca exploitation? Maybe you can take the promotion of agricultural biodiversity too far.
Will the Svalbard Global Seed Vault qualify one day? Ten years on, still going strong. And return to top.