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Category: Neglected species

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.

Posted on September 15, 2007September 16, 2007

Pachyrhizus power

Yam bean a major high-protein starch staple?

Posted on September 13, 2007

New Agriculturist

Latest New Agriculturist: focus on non-wood forest products.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. A North Macedonian professor’s 15-year rescue mission for landraces and crops surviving only in remote villages. Why bother? Stay tuned…
    2. Ancient grapevines in Tigray represent a unique genetic lineage with potential value for breeding varieties adapted to dryland conditions.
    3. Hawai’i Public Radio checks in on Maui’s coconut genebank. Useful to breed varieties adapted to really wet conditions, presumably.
    4. The Cayman Islands are also hoarding coconuts, along with lots of tasty fruits.
    5. A USD 400,000 boost from Taiwan for the Eswatini national genebank. Indigenous vegetables get much-needed love.
    6. A regional survey of 25 orphan crops across 13 Latin American countries finds quinoa and amaranth well-catalogued, but characterization budgets are the real bottleneck. Collecting and conserving in genebanks is great, but not enough.
    7. South Korea puts 330,000 seed accessions under “double lock”, hedging against both climate change and war. Conserving in one place is not enough.
    8. FAO warns that nearly a third of the world can’t afford the USD 4.28 a day that a healthy diet costs — nearly three billion people, and rising. That’s why we need al the above, I guess.

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