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Posted on January 29, 2019February 5, 2019

Nibbles: A2S2019, ICRISAT seeds, High protein rice, American grapes, Religion & diet, Australian NUS

  • Access to Seeds comes out with 2019 edition. Not much change, alas. LATER: Ok, I stand corrected. And spanked.
  • Maybe this ICRISAT online seed tool will help with that access.
  • How many people will have access to this high protein rice?
  • Indigenous American grape species: more than just rootstocks.
  • The religion of diets.
  • Bush tucker is a religion for some.
Posted on January 29, 2019January 29, 2019

Nibbles: Heirlooms double, Seed huntress, Sequencing, ABS

  • Oldie but goldie on heirlooms.
  • And an update.
  • Someone who’s doing something about collecting heirlooms and suchlike.
  • What you can do once you have the stuff.
  • And the rules we all have to follow.
Posted on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019

Nibbles: Cherokee genebank, Community genebanks, Fruit genebank, CGIAR genebanks, CWR pre-breeding, Ethiopian sacred groves, UK animal ark

  • Cherokee Nation seedbank goes online.
  • Does that mean it is a biodiversity eden?
  • New Grewia genebank in India. No word on community involvement.
  • Meanwhile, at the CGIAR genebanks…
  • Pre-breeding using CWR, some even from genebanks: finger millet, eggplant.
  • Yeah, yeah, it’s not just about genebanks.
  • Or maybe it is.
Posted on January 21, 2019

Nibbles: Trade wars, Native American seeds & diets, Diversifying staples, Cheese animation, Eggplant breeding

  • Susan Bragdon and others on what Trump’s agricultural trade war with China really means.
  • Meanwhile, in Tucson…
  • What we need is Smart Foods.
  • The cheese history video we’ve all been waiting for.
  • Wild eggplants at WorldVeg.
Posted on January 17, 2019January 17, 2019

Nibbles: New crops, Coffee threats, Ancient Sagittaria, Forage breeding, Chinese bananas

  • The future of food is different plants. Can live with that.
  • Like wapato?
  • As long as coffee is still in the mix.
  • That mean we won’t need forages? Surely not.
  • Maybe we can also grow the same plants, but better.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. AI doesn’t recognize tropical agriculture very well.
    2. So presumably it can’t easily be used in assessing climate change impacts in agricultural heritage systems? FAO has some ideas on how to do it.
    3. Maybe rice heritage systems can be used to make cheese.
    4. I bet Andean blueberry (Vaccinium floribundum) goes great with rice cheese.
    5. But if not, heritage apples will probably do.
    6. The Hungarian genebank is hoping to inject heritage grains into non-heritage agricultural systems. AI and FAO unavailable for comment.
    7. Maybe AI can help with the mystery of this old seed collection at the Natural History Museum, London.

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