Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

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Nibbles: NSW genebank, Ghana genebank, Community seed bank standards, Kenya legislation, Valuing diversity, BBC on potato, Ube yams in Philippines, Strawberry anatomy and history

  1. Another genebank in Australia. Unclear how it relates to the existing ones.
  2. Ghana’s genebank in funding trouble.
  3. How to run a community seed bank, according to the Bureau of Indian Standards. Apparently includes things like its relationship with other genebanks and funding.
  4. How to change legislation in Kenya to be more supportive of genebanks.
  5. Why we need genebanks in the first place.
  6. Otherwise decent podcast on the potato manages not to mention genebanks.
  7. Otherwise decent article on ube (Dioscorea alata) manages not to mention genebanks.
  8. Otherwise excellent dissection of the strawberry manages not to mention genebanks.
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Nibbles: Johnny Appleseed, ICRAF genebanks, China lychee genebank, Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute, Saudi tree genebanks, European genebank data, Pricing nature

  1. Johnny Appleseed basically set up fruit tree genebanks 200 years ago.
  2. Modern fruit tree genebanks could probably learn something from Mr Appleseed.
  3. Is there a Mr Lycheeseed, I wonder?
  4. There are probably some fruit tree collections at the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute.
  5. Saudi Arabia is betting on tree genebanks. Maybe even fruit tree genebanks.
  6. All genebanks need to share their data, according to the guy in charge of helping European genebanks share their data.
  7. Can you put a value on genebanks? Should you?
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Nibbles: Fit for Biodiversity, Food value chains, FAO, SeedTracker, Morocco genetic erosion, Pastoralists, Cannabis seedbanks

  1. A conference on biodiversity in agri-food systems. Including agrobiodiversity?
  2. A photo essay about food value chains in India. Including agrobiodiversity?
  3. A few examples of FAO’s work on how agriculture sustains biodiversity. Including agrobiodiversity.
  4. An app to track seeds. And therefore agrobiodiversity.
  5. A warning that 75% of the agrobiodiversity of Morocco’s wheat and barley has been lost in the past 50 years. Ah, so that 75% number is true of something after all. Maybe they could use SeedTracker.
  6. A reminder that pastoralists guard biodiversity. Including agrobiodiversity.
  7. A Genesys for weed. Well, I guess it’s agrobiodiversity.
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Nibbles: Svalbard prize, Rice breeding, Coffee geography, Biodiversity loss monitoring, Spatial data

  1. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault gets the Princesa de Asturias Prize for international cooperation. Time to celebrate.
  2. Celebrating Pamela Ronald and scuba rice.
  3. Celebrating Ohsoon Yun and the geography of coffee.
  4. I’ll certainly celebrate if the approach of the NATURE-FIRST project can be applied to loss of agricultural biodiversity one day.
  5. The World Bank is in a celebratory mood with regards to geospatial and Earth observation data. I’ll join them when they fund a NATURE-FIRST for crop diversity.
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Nibbles: Pearl millet redux, Garden plants, Armenian pics, Seeds galore, Heavenly Book, Pastoralism threats

  1. Pearl millet is getting the hybrid treatment. And, loving it.
  2. Want to know what to grow in your garden? Yes, even pearl millet.
  3. Nice pics of Armenian landscapes, food and foodways. No pearl millet in sight.
  4. The latest monthly newsletter from The Botanist in the Kitchen does seeds. Pearl millet unavailable for comment.
  5. China is genotyping and phenotyping (almost) everything. Pearl millet feeling left out.
  6. If pearl millet fails, there is always pastoralism. No, wait…