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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. Agrobiodiversity inspires tourism in the Andes of Peru.
    2. South African fruit exporters does its (small) bit for heirloom apple conservation.
    3. Wild tea doing just fine in the Shunhuangshan National Nature Reserve in Hunan Province, China. Even when harvested by local communities. Looks great for tourism too.
    4. Native communities in Nebraska getting some support for saving and exchanging seeds.
    5. Women are in charge of chiles in Tamil Nadu.
    6. Popular Science does genebanks. At least one genebank has tourism potential, I’d say.
    7. Want to support forest landscape restoration through native tree planting in Kenya? Go to MyFarmTrees, and help keep Kenya a tourism hotspot.

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