- How people used cereals before agriculture in the Fertile Crescent (roughly speaking).
- Fast forward two thousand years and meet Elba, the shepherdess of Courel. And some aurochs.
- Nine thousand years later, MusaNet revamps its website…
- …and coconut revamps its conservation strategy.
- And finally, here are some post-agricultural tomatoes.
Maize comic in the offing
Well this looks super-cool.
Nibbles: Harvest time, Wheat evaluation, Olive diversity, Maize museum, MAKEathon, Community seed banks
- Why bulls and cereals go together.
- Finding out which old wheats go together with good bread.
- How in situ and ex situ conservation can come together for olives in Catalonia.
- 60 maize landraces come together in a cool display.
- Coming together for African yam bean, starting on 7 July.
- How national genebanks and community seed banks can come together.
Nibbles: Legume breeding, Hemp cultivation, Soybean breeding, Acacia taxonomy
- Freeing legumes in Africa.
- Hemp used to be much more free in Italy.
- The unfree history of soybeans in the US.
- Taxonomists are not free to rename acacias at will.
Nibbles: Linguistic diversity, Filipino rice, Cashew, Brassica domestication
- The need to save languages.
- Saving rice diversity in the Philippines.
- Cashews saving farmers in Guinea-Bissau.
- Understanding Brassica rapa diversity in order to save it.