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Category: Markets

Posted on August 20, 2007

East meets West

Big Pharma looks to Chinese medicine.

Posted on August 18, 2007

Opiate supply and demand

More on legalizing poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.

Posted on August 17, 2007

Food miles to go before I sleep

A plea to rebuild regional food networks.

Posted on August 14, 2007

Baobab products galore

There’s a Baobab Fruit Company in Senegal. Via Timbuktu Chronicles.

Posted on August 13, 2007

Chewing the khat

A traditional narcotic shrub is taking over Yemeni agriculture.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agriculture is bad for natural ecosystems. But great for maps, you have to admit.
    2. Greens are good for you. And this is a great roundup of the latest scholarship on brassica evolution, domestication and diversity. You’ll find most of the paper quoted in past Brainfoods.
    3. Grains are great. Especially with greens.
    4. Thank goodness for household seed banking. Especially in conjunction with the formal kind.
    5. All so we can breed a better peanut. And cut down more natural ecosystem?
    6. No, there’s community genebanks for that too…

    Published on March 13, 2026

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