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October 22, 2007October 22, 2007

US National Agricultural Library blog

This could be fun: InfoFarm is a blog at the US National Agricultural Library. via IAALD.

October 19, 2007

Teaching kids about fungi

October 18, 2007October 18, 2007

Crop books reviewed

More about food and farming from bookforum.com, including links to reviews of books on the history of citrus and of beans. Meanwhile, iafrica.com has features on the potato in history and the potato and politicsÂ to remind us that 2008 will be the International Year of the Potato.

October 17, 2007

King Corn

New documentary traces fate of US maize harvest.

October 17, 2007

Mapping hunger

FAO animated map of undernourishment. Via CABI.

1. In the UK, Herefordshire’s Museum of Cider is picking up national recognition for its genebank of heritage apple trees. The BBC’s canonical autumnal apple story comes a little early this year.
2. Speaking of iconic apples, Kazakhstan is scaling up efforts to bring back the Aport, the giant heirloom that once made Almaty famous. No word of museums, though. Or cider.
3. Over in the Philippines, Department of Environment and Natural Resources is beefing up its rattan genebank to keep pace with demand, with forest stewards in Bukidnon planting seedlings to match. Furniture makers need genebanks as much as cider makers.
4. Sri Lanka’s pre-Green Revolution heirloom rice varieties, purana haal, are being eyed for their resilience and disease-management potential. Good thing they’re in the national genebank.
5. Saudi Arabia’s Jazan terraced coffee farms are turning into rural and ecotourism hotspots, proving not all agrobiodiversity needs to be in a genebank to survive. But it helps.
Published on August 9, 2026