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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.
Posted on August 31, 2008August 31, 2008

Nibbles: Maize, Russia, Maze

  • Get ready for cold-tolerant corn.
  • Get ready for Russian dominated global food. The numbers are jaw-dropping.
  • Get ready to navigate sorghum sudan grass labyrinth.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Swapping maize for indigenous crops won’t fix African food systems designed around markets and policies that still favour a narrow range of crops.
    2. Cassava is both a food security fallback and a commercial crop in Uganda, but disease, climate change and declining diversity make its conservation an increasingly urgent form of insurance. But what about the markets and policies?
    3. When livestock and crops fail, Ugandan pastoralists draw on wild plants for food, underlining how much food-system resilience still sits outside the formal agricultural system, with its markets and policies.
    4. The Morton Arboretum is using living collections and genetic research to help the threatened butternut tree cope with changing conditions.
    5. Webinar discusses global approaches to seed provenancing and transfer zones, useful for anyone who wants to move native plants without moving the wrong genes. Butternut very interested.
    6. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Frozen Zoo preserves genetic material of plant and animal species that may disappear, from DNA to cells to organisms. Butternut volunteers.
    7. New Indian facility combines ex situ fish conservation with community aquaculture. Good model for much of the above?

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