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Category: Neglected species

Posted on October 3, 2007October 3, 2007

Wild blueberries thrive in Canada

Climate change causes blueberry war.

Posted on September 30, 2007

Agrobiodiversity around the home

British homegardens to be surveyed.

Posted on September 24, 2007September 26, 2007

Giant swamp taro analyzed

More of one of our favourite leitmotifs. Lois Englberger tells me her team’s latest paper on variety-level nutritional composition has been accepted by the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 1.  It won’t actually be out for a few months, but here’s the abstract to whet your appetite:

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Posted on September 24, 2007September 24, 2007

NTFP and poverty

Collecting wild foods an “efficient method of subsistence.”

Posted on September 23, 2007

Root crops vs grains

Do we need more vegeculture? Via Tucsonivores.

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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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