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Posted on May 4, 2020May 4, 2020

Food Planet Prize highlights agrobiodiversity

I didn’t know about the Food Planet Prize, but the editors’ picks this year in the area of biodiversity look pretty cool.

The selection comes with a Special Report by Dan Saladino on “Biodiversity in farming and nature.” You can submit nominations until 31 May.

Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

Nibbles: Online courses, Colombian seeds, California grapes, Living lockdown

  • Online courses on plant-related stuff.
  • Beautiful catalog of Colombian heritage seeds.
  • California mission grapes came from Peru, not Mexico.
  • Taking care of living collections under coronavirus lockdown.
Posted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

Nibbles: Olives, Figs, Columbian Exchange, Flour, landraces Newsletter, DOIs

  • Is there any doubt that olives are important?
  • Or figs, for that matter.
  • Spanish botanical garden exhibit on Latin American plants that changed the European diet. Stunning.
  • Old mills making a comeback.
  • Latest issue of the Landraces newsletter from Farmer’s Pride. See also here for previous issues.
  • Huge PDF on DOIs in genebanks.
Posted on April 24, 2020

Nibbles: Monticello, Breeding, Seed saving, Neolithic cultures, Ube

  • Monticello has heirloom crops. But not only, lest we forget.
  • The need for public sector breeders. And their genebanks.
  • Let’s all save our seeds.
  • Although of course seeds are not enough to define a culinary tradition, now or in the Neolithic.
  • Yeah, what exactly is ube? Dioscorea alata? Ipomoea batatas? Your guess is as good as mine. Whatever: purple is the new orange.
Posted on April 21, 2020April 23, 2020

Agrobiodiversity everywhere

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. A little more safety for Ukraine’s seeds, thanks to a new genebank.
    2. A little more safety for Mexico’s native maize, thanks to Pres. Sheinbaum.
    3. A little more safety for Andean agriculture, thanks to Ecuadorian Indigenous women and Inside Mater in Peru.
    4. A little more safety for Ischia’s zampognaro bean and Amalfi’s lemons, thanks to local people (and GIAHS).
    5. A little more safety for Pacific crops, thanks to cryopreservation. Breadfruit next?
    6. A little more safety for moringa? At least in Africa with all its “opportunity crops”?

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