Indigenous knowledge systems – Page 346 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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.

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.

September 20, 2008

Nibbles: Moringa, Gardening

September 19, 2008

Virtue rewarded

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

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.

1. Haga Hideo’s 1950s photos of Fukushima farming rituals are now being used to revive them: ex situ conservation, but for culture.
2. Long before photography, or “pre‑breeding” was a buzzword, Belgian pomologist Jean‑Baptiste Van Mons was running massive pear selection trials and gifting us Beurré Bosc and Doyenné Boussock.
3. As Southern Africa’s miombo woodlands shrinks, scientists are cloning wild trees so the fruit — and food security — outlive the forest. Now for the pre-breeding.
4. Greenpeace Africa’s Seed Project makes the case for indigenous seeds as a route to farmer independence. And you can help.
5. And oh so coincidentally, a network of community seed banks in Kenya is rescuing indigenous seeds so the diversity is still around when opportunity (or crisis) knocks.
6. Also in Kenya, the national genebank’s collectors are racing to secure opportunity crops.
7. Nepal’s indigenous crops and landraces are at the same time more needed than ever, and under threat. So, much like in Kenya.
8. The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT says women are at the center of sustainable food systems; the fine print adds: “as they have always been.”
Published on September 30, 2026