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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. Johnny Appleseed basically set up fruit tree genebanks 200 years ago.
    2. Modern fruit tree genebanks could probably learn something from Mr Appleseed.
    3. Is there a Mr Lycheeseed, I wonder?
    4. There are probably some fruit tree collections at the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute.
    5. Saudi Arabia is betting on tree genebanks. Maybe even fruit tree genebanks.
    6. All genebanks need to share their data, according to the guy in charge of helping European genebanks share their data.
    7. Can you put a value on genebanks? Should you?

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