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Posted on September 10, 2008September 11, 2008

Nibbles: Favas, Olives, Insects, Beer, Hallucinogen

  • UK breeders scour ICARDA’s fava beans for better genes. What next? Chianti?
  • Olive cultivation then and now. An archaeologist speaks.
  • Entomophagy.
  • Lager yeast origins.
  • Salvia divinorum: underutilized no longer.
Posted on September 8, 2008September 8, 2008

Nibbles: Value chains, Growing local

  • Value chain analysis — how beans get form Guatemala to Costco. CIAT involved. Huge story.
  • Brilliant. Via Aguanomics.  Sky Vegetables.
Posted on September 5, 2008September 5, 2008

Nibbles: ICTs, Dance, Information, Animal genetic resources

  • Video on Web 2.0 applications in the development sector in Africa.
  • Dancing with agrobiodiversity. Via. Thanks, Kev.
  • New Agriculturist is out.
  • China will “ban the export of genetic resources of newly-discovered, unidentified livestock and poultry breeds that are unique to the country.” Unidentified?
Posted on September 3, 2008September 3, 2008

Nibbles: Seed hunter, Milk, Wine, Pollinators, Cacao, Berries

  • Seed hunter hunts cash. Australians can watch on 21 October.
  • Is selling milk retail really diversification? Alex thinks so.
  • In vino variety. Jeremy sez: “Theft (of headline) is flattery”.
  • Pollinator presence plummets. Luigi also sez: “Theft (of headline) is flattery”.
  • Cacao Germplasm Evaluation and Characterization Project. Nuff said.
  • Ribes redux.
Posted on September 1, 2008September 2, 2008

Nibbles: Veal, Anatomy, Taro, Schwenkler, Genebanks

  • “You have to find a wacky person when you are trying to rescue something in danger of extinction“.
  • Fruit porn video from BBC.
  • Hawaii sets up task force to save taro. Yeah that’ll work.
  • John Schwenkler potpourri.
  • Malaysian PM set right on seedbanks. Thanks, Choo.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Kenyan farmers are rediscovering indigenous crops.
    2. Oman discovers it has lots of mango diversity, and moves to conserve it.
    3. Swedish student discovering varietal mixtures.
    4. Discover how a locally adapted cattle population in Japan became a globally recognized premium brand by maintaining distinctive genetic and breeding characteristics. Lessons there for all of the above perhaps?

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