Nibbles

Nibbles: Gardening, Seed Swap, Mapping, Animal Genebank, Rice, Seed Treay, Nanocellulose, Camels, Bread, food Security

Gardening is good for you. It’s official. And they didn’t even measure nutrition.
European seed swap in Brussels.
More fun for mappers; Training Kit on Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication. h/t CAPRi
Australian animal genebank under threat.
Filipinos ♥ IRRI.
Big write up of Seed Treaty‘s recent Governing Body meeting in Bali.
Wired magazine goes nuts for bananas and other fruits as sources of better plastics.
Camelicious! The worlds first large-scale camel dairy farm.
Food strikes in ancient Egypt. They’ve been revolting for more than 3000 years.
Nice round-up of how indigenous communities in Colombia are protecting their food security.

“On the contrary, ‘doesn’t come true from seed’ is another way of saying ‘has lots of exciting diversity’.” Rebsie rounds up her tomatoes.
Domestication of African rice explored at the Vaviblog.
Entebbe Botanical Gardens has a genebank. That’s all I know.
Roland continues to dream of a South Sea genebank paradise; one island, one coconut variety.
“Cary Fowler explains the vital importance of crop wild relatives to address the future challenges to agriculture,” it says at the Trust website.
Let them eat bread. Foreign Affairs on food riots. h/t Rachel, who has some interesting things to say on the subject.
Fascinating behind the scenes insights into Economic Botany collections at Kew and elsewhere.

To a hammer, everything is a nail; Decanter magazine bemoans loss of sake breweries in Japan.
One door closes, another one opens; “price winning” Croatian wines.
Why go to Kew when you can tour with Google streetview?
Slideshow on genebanks and climate change adaptation in Ethiopia. Wish I could hear the words.
Canadians! Your heritage crops and breeds need you.
How best to dry banana slices in Ethiopia.