Nibbles

Nibbles: Maori, Göbekli Tepe, Spinacia, Herbarium

Ancient Maoris traded kiwi feathers. What’s that you say? Kiwis are not agrobiodiversity? Says who?
Did organized religion come before agriculture? It’s a toss-up, frankly.
Looking for wild spinach. Ah, to be in the field again!
How to use a plant press. With video goodness. Ah, to be in the field again! Ok, settle down now, back to the grind.

ICARDA saves the world.
No, ICRISAT saves the world.
You’re both wrong, it’s CIAT.
No, wait, maybe it’s CIMMYT. Oh I give up.
Actually it’s fungi.
Or maybe tissue culture?
Surely it can’t be five unknown vegetables?
Could it be that it’s the Mediterranean diet? And that UNESCO will screw it up for all of us?

The old go-intensive-so-we-don’t-have-to-plough-up-Nature-for-more-farmland argument rears its beautiful head again.
Frosty pod rot comes to Latin America’s cacao, but CATIE has the varieties.
But clove is not so lucky.
Value addition, the Kenyan way.

Community local knowledge confirms scientific findings on climate change. (Or vice versa?)
A CIAT video on “the potential of particular forage crops for improving guinea pig production, improving rural nutrition and incomes, and empowering women” in DRC.
Sustainable eel label. Like that’ll help. h/t The Tracing Paper.
The small scale farmer who is also Director of Communications and Public Affairs for AGRA runs into a seed shortage. So she plants an unsuitable maize variety and hopes for the best.

Dogs are different from wolves, different types of wolves are different from each other.
Vavilov-Frankel Fellow on the move.
Nacional cacao bean rediscovered in northern Peru.
Manx Queenies deemed to be sustainable. And wipe that smile off your face.