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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. AI doesn’t recognize tropical agriculture very well.
    2. So presumably it can’t easily be used in assessing climate change impacts in agricultural heritage systems? FAO has some ideas on how to do it.
    3. Maybe rice heritage systems can be used to make cheese.
    4. I bet Andean blueberry (Vaccinium floribundum) goes great with rice cheese.
    5. But if not, heritage apples will probably do.
    6. The Hungarian genebank is hoping to inject heritage grains into non-heritage agricultural systems. AI and FAO unavailable for comment.
    7. Maybe AI can help with the mystery of this old seed collection at the Natural History Museum, London.

    Published on April 2, 2026

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