- Seed in genebanks have fungi, and that could be a good thing.
- Seed sector mentions genebanks, and that’s a good thing.
- Seed libraries are great.
- You can take virtual tours of a couple of CGIAR genebanks, which can’t be bad.
Nibbles: Pastoralism, Chinese seeds, Livestock genetics comic
- What pastoralists know.
- What a Chinese organic farmer knows.
- What kids should know.
Nibbles: Vavilov, Indian rice, Mexican maize, British hops, ICARDA, Turkey feathers
- Podcast on Vavilov.
- Indian government mainstreams Vavilov.
- Debate on maize in Mexico ends up mainstreaming Vavilov.
- Vavilov would approve of Fuggle and Golding.
- Pretty sure Mariana Yazbek and Vavilov would have got on.
- Not sure if Vavilov thought much about livestock domestication, but I expect so, and he would probably have enjoyed this story about Pueblo turkeys too.
Nibbles: Zoos, China genebank, Trinidad genebank, Patagonia & Breadfruit Institute, Dichotomising food, African food, Twitty on rice
- Seed banks, but for animals.
- New genebank, for seeds, in China.
- Old genebank, for seeds, in Trinidad & Tobago.
- Food company collaborates with oldish genebank, of trees.
- Industrialist or organicist, we’re still going to need genebanks.
- Podcasting on African food. Not a genebank in sight.
- How an African food became an American food.
Nibbles: Millets 2023, Pygmy hog, Iraqi seeds, Botanicals, Business, EU
- Watch out for the millets renaissance.
- This small wild pig is already having a renaissance.
- Can you help with the renaissance of some Iraqi vegetable seeds?
- Alpine botanicals will be having anything but a renaissance. Genebanks anyone?
- No way to call the uptick in interest in biodiversity in the financial industry a renaissance. I’m not even sure it’s an uptick, actually. Absinthe, anyone?
- Will the EU’s Farm to Fork plus biodiversity strategies lead to an environmental renaissance?