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Category: Indigenous knowledge systems

Posted on September 29, 2008September 29, 2008

Nibbles: Tamarind, Fire, Aquaculture

  • A single tree that is also a genebank? Holy tamarind.
  • Looking to kangaroo bones for evidence of Aboriginal terraforming.
  • African fish farming links. Via.
Posted on September 23, 2008September 23, 2008

Nibbles: New Agriculturist, Sheep, Jatropha, Carrots

  • All about potatoes.
  • Mutant sheep to attack Australia.
  • An Indian Jatropha genebank in the news. And a study to tell us where to collect more using some really cool software.
  • The ‘Purple Dragon’ carrots are coming up in a variety of colours but mostly not purple.
Posted on September 20, 2008

Nibbles: Moringa, Gardening

  • “Seeing moringa described as the most nutritious of all tropical vegetables, I wondered why there was so much malnutrition in regions where the tree is easily grown and used.”
  • “It’s an historic garden and we’ve kept working it the way it was.”
Posted on September 19, 2008

Virtue rewarded

“I have not done anything extraordinary; merely taken care of my land.”

Posted on September 18, 2008September 18, 2008

Nibbles: Tangled Bank, Uganda, Swaziland, Agroforestry, Aquaculture, Potato

  • Tangled Bank 114 is up at Science made Cool.
  • More young people should be involved in agriculture.
  • More rich people should be involved in agriculture.
  • More trees should be involved in agriculture.
  • Carp have been involved in agriculture for a long time. At least in Japan.
  • In depth look at potato numbers.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Africa needs good forest seeds.
    2. And genetic monitoring of the resulting plantings, probably.
    3. The Caribbean also wants quality seed, and thinks a mobile seed bank is the way to get it.
    4. The only mobile things about New Zealand’s genebank are its collectors.
    5. A very mobile donation to the UK’s vegetable genebank.
    6. Nothing very mobile about Slow Beans 2025, but that’s the point.
    7. The long journey of honeysuckle.

    Published on January 20, 2026

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