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Category: History

Posted on October 17, 2006October 17, 2006

What would early farmers do?

AlphaGalileo, the self-styled “world’s leading resource for European research news” has a piece on an experiment to reconstruct early Neolithic living conditions in Austria. But what varieties are they going to grow?

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault gets the Princesa de Asturias Prize for international cooperation. Time to celebrate.
    2. Celebrating Pamela Ronald and scuba rice.
    3. Celebrating Ohsoon Yun and the geography of coffee.
    4. I’ll certainly celebrate if the approach of the NATURE-FIRST project can be applied to loss of agricultural biodiversity one day.
    5. The World Bank is in a celebratory mood with regards to geospatial and Earth observation data. I’ll join them when they fund a NATURE-FIRST for crop diversity.

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