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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on November 17, 2010

Nibbles: Forest management, Sahelian trees, Biofortification blogging

  • Combining traditional and scientific knowledge on an invasive species to manage forests.
  • Variation in dryland trees: Balanites and Adansonia.
  • Roundup of biofortification bloggers.
Posted on November 16, 2010November 16, 2010

Nibbles: Ethnobotany, Marketing, Cacao

  • Not much better today on the nibble front. Jamaican and Chilean medicinal plants.
  • And an interesting approach to the social marketing of local produce. iFarmers.
  • Saving chocolate, the high- and low-tech ways.
Posted on November 15, 2010November 15, 2010

Nibbles: Grass roots fruit

  • One pathetic nibble today, but it is tasty: Fruit-full schools in the UK.
Posted on November 14, 2010November 14, 2010

Nibbles: Sweden, Nagoya, 100 questions,

  • Swede objects to relaxed seed laws because it promotes profit, not biodiversty. Huh?
  • Scidev.net optimistic about Nagoya.
  • Those 100 questions answered in full for global agriculture, from climate change to consumer choice. We’ll be back on this one.
Posted on November 12, 2010November 12, 2010

Nibbles: Advice, Advice, Advice, IR8

  • Americans advised to eat diversity, by USDA and others. Wot, no fortified staples?
  • Webcast on Food Systems and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa. h/t The Agrobiodiversity Grapevine.
  • French vegetables disappearing? Je ne le crois pas.
  • The Scientist Gardener tackles declining yields of miracle rice, but what has he done to his colour scheme?

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and…
    2. …Cate Blanchett.
    3. Or read about it in The Economist.
    4. Or watch a nice video.
    5. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers.
    6. How to get stuff out of the NPGS.
    7. Laurajean Lewis: from an NPGS genebank to CIMMYT’s.
    8. I’m sure she and Chris Mujjabi will get to know each other soon.
    9. Diane Ragone: Not all genebanks are seed banks.
    10. Not a lot of breadfruits in Belgium but, surprisingly, lots of bananas.

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