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Posted on August 20, 2007August 20, 2007

Ancient chewing gum

Neolithic Finns chewed birch bark tar for fresh breath, clean teeth.

Posted on August 20, 2007August 20, 2007

Douglas Gayeton photography

Slow Food-type photographs from Tuscany.

Posted on August 18, 2007

Opiate supply and demand

More on legalizing poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.

Posted on August 17, 2007

Food miles to go before I sleep

A plea to rebuild regional food networks.

Posted on August 16, 2007

Ex situ conservation in NZ

New Zealand opens genebank for native plants. No crops, but maybe wild relatives?

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Modelling adoption of biofortified crops is no substitute for empirical field surveys. Kind of obvious, but I guess needed saying.
    2. Kenyans may not need biofortified crops, though. Assuming they are actually eating their traditional vegetables.
    3. There’s a whole genebank for Africa’s vegetables.
    4. Saba senegalensis is also naturally biofortified.
    5. The High Atlas Foundation is also on a fruit tree mission
    6. Is the date palm the most important fruit tree in the world, though?
    7. I wonder what will happen to USDA’s fruit tree collections.

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