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Category: History

Posted on June 26, 2007June 26, 2007

The roots of Darfur

The world is waking up to the fact that competition for an eroding natural resources base is at least a contributing factors to the tensions of Darfur, whose tragic results then further exacerbate the problem in vicious positive feedback. But Jonathan Robinson said so some years back (via ADE). What took so long?

Posted on June 26, 2007

When’s lunch?

The Food Timeline.

Posted on June 22, 2007

Potholes on the Tequila Trail

Tequila vs maize in the homeland of both.

Posted on June 11, 2007June 11, 2007

Pharaonic eats

Ancient Egyptian cooking.

Posted on June 8, 2007

Baguette to the future

A history of french bread.

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Fresh Nibbles

    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

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