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Category: History

Posted on July 5, 2007

Absinthe explained

One of the more interesting uses of agricultural biodiversity.

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.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. AI doesn’t recognize tropical agriculture very well.
    2. So presumably it can’t easily be used in assessing climate change impacts in agricultural heritage systems? FAO has some ideas on how to do it.
    3. Maybe rice heritage systems can be used to make cheese.
    4. I bet Andean blueberry (Vaccinium floribundum) goes great with rice cheese.
    5. But if not, heritage apples will probably do.
    6. The Hungarian genebank is hoping to inject heritage grains into non-heritage agricultural systems. AI and FAO unavailable for comment.
    7. Maybe AI can help with the mystery of this old seed collection at the Natural History Museum, London.

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