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Posted on June 23, 2021June 30, 2021

Maize comic in the offing

Well this looks super-cool.

Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021

Nibbles: Harvest time, Wheat evaluation, Olive diversity, Maize museum, MAKEathon, Community seed banks

  1. Why bulls and cereals go together.
  2. Finding out which old wheats go together with good bread.
  3. How in situ and ex situ conservation can come together for olives in Catalonia.
  4. 60 maize landraces come together in a cool display.
  5. Coming together for African yam bean, starting on 7 July.
  6. How national genebanks and community seed banks can come together.
Posted on June 22, 2021June 21, 2021

Nibbles: Legume breeding, Hemp cultivation, Soybean breeding, Acacia taxonomy

  1. Freeing legumes in Africa.
  2. Hemp used to be much more free in Italy.
  3. The unfree history of soybeans in the US.
  4. Taxonomists are not free to rename acacias at will.
Posted on June 15, 2021

Nibbles: Linguistic diversity, Filipino rice, Cashew, Brassica domestication

  1. The need to save languages.
  2. Saving rice diversity in the Philippines.
  3. Cashews saving farmers in Guinea-Bissau.
  4. Understanding Brassica rapa diversity in order to save it.
Posted on June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

Nibbles: Apples, Millets, Miniatures, Transhumance, Ag origins, Seeds

  1. Rescuing apples in Appalachia.
  2. Rescuing millets in India.
  3. Painting mangoes in India. I suspect they don’t need rescuing.
  4. Transhumance in Georgia.
  5. It was the need for clothes, not food, that caused all the above.
  6. And yes, seeds are alive.

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    1. Kenyan farmers are rediscovering indigenous crops.
    2. Oman discovers it has lots of mango diversity, and moves to conserve it.
    3. Swedish student discovering varietal mixtures.
    4. Discover how a locally adapted cattle population in Japan became a globally recognized premium brand by maintaining distinctive genetic and breeding characteristics. Lessons there for all of the above perhaps?

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