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Category: History

Posted on May 29, 2010May 29, 2010

Nibbles: Mayan archaeobeerology, Pesticidal plants, Livestock and livelihoods, Uganda national park

  • Cacao beer. What’s not to like?
  • CABI blog deconstructs pesticidal plants.
  • Worldwatch blog on how “livestock can improve food security and preserve and rebuild communities.”
  • Bwindi Impenetrable National Park tries to diversify.
Posted on May 24, 2010May 24, 2010

Nibbles: Endangered African breeds, Rice and bananas, AGRA, Adaptation, Old Masters

  • ILRI continues its attempt to take over the internet.
  • Dorian Fuller summarizes rice in Madagascar in a paragraph. Good trick. And for his next one he rounds up the latest on bananas. The guy’s a machine.
  • No adaptation without agrobiodiversity, rapt masses told. And here, like manna from heaven, is an example. Well, sort of.
  • Bruegel on agriculture. With picture goodness.
Posted on May 22, 2010May 23, 2010

Nibbles: Yams, AnGR, Intensification

  • One of the top 10 species described in 2009 is a yam. Yeah, I didn’t believe it either.
  • ILRI video on why it’s important to conserve livestock genetic diversity.
  • Edible Geography does the sort of deconstruction of Radical Cartography’s agricultural history maps that I was hoping to do but probably wouldn’t have been able to.
Posted on May 21, 2010May 22, 2010

How bread-making came to Hawaii

If this 1840 advert intrigues you, or indeed if you think you know what plant the gentleman is holding in his hand, head on over to Rachel Laudan’s blog.

Posted on May 13, 2010May 13, 2010

Nibbles: Poppies, Breeding, American panmixis, Hemp, Bra, AnGR

  • Breeders called on to save key Afghani crop. No, not really.
  • GMOs not incompatible with organic, round 2.
  • The Columbian Exchange. People though, not crops.
  • USDA chief botanist was into Cannabis shock.
  • Novel way of growing rice unveiled.
  • Two livestock pdfs: What 2010 means for farm animal genetic resources conservation. And a book on European local breeds.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. What’s wrong with supermarkets.
    2. Cate Blanchett on the Millennium Seed Bank. Attitude to supermarkets unknown.
    3. Access & Benefit Sharing 101. Cate Blanchett unavailable for comment.
    4. Experts weigh in on how we should change how we eat. Nobody but Cate Blanchett will listen, but supermarkets and seeds feature, for what it’s worth.
    5. How they ate in the Middle Ages without supermarkets. Or at least harvested.
    6. After we’re done with medieval haymaking, let’s bring back the aurochs too. And put it in a supermarket?
    7. Yeah but what is a breed anyway? Or an aurochs, for that matter.

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