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Category: Livestock

Posted on December 18, 2007

Hamming it up

Jamon iberico finally gets a visa.

Posted on December 17, 2007December 17, 2007

Canadian fish in trouble

Two separate pieces in EurekAlert in the past couple of days point to something being decidedly rotten in the state of Canadian fisheries. First, evidence that parasitic sea lice from salmon farms are spreading to nearby wild populations and may wipe them out within a few years. 1 And the historic American eel fishery is also in trouble, possibly as a result of pollution in Lake Ontario. Bad luck, or something more?

Posted on December 16, 2007

Biblical transportation makes a comeback

Asses Donkeys and mules still big in Gaza.

Posted on December 11, 2007

New film about pastoralists and biodiversity

Keepers of Genes, a 28-minute documentary produced by award-winning filmmaker Moving Images, documents the role played by pastoralists in preserving animal biodiversity and the key issues confronting them today.

Anyone seen it? Anyone know more?

Posted on December 11, 2007

Mopane worms

Mopane worms: a traditional source of protein in Botswana. I’ve tried them. They’re yummie.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. The perils of dematerialization play out in India.
    2. Is YamHub dematerialization?
    3. Rice genebanks in Bangladesh and at IRRI are pretty solid.
    4. There’s a pretty solid platform for India’s community seed banks.
    5. I hope Nagaland’s wild bananas end up in genebanks.
    6. Cassava’s diversity is in multiple genebanks, and that’s a good thing, CBSD and all.
    7. ICARDA’s genebank back in the Syrian news, though in a good way for once.
    8. Tajikistan’s women farmers are bringing back crops with not a worry about dematerialization. Or genebanks, it seems.

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