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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on August 6, 2010August 6, 2010

Nibbles: GM canola, Maize, Conference, Chefs, Prices

  • GM canola goes wild, Jeremy is not surprised
  • More — much more — on maize cultivation in Chaco Canyon.
  • Conference in London on Securing Future Food. Agrobiodiversity should be present.
  • Chefs embrace agrobiodiversity — in Maine.
  • Price spikes: climate change or knee-jerk policies? (Both?)
Posted on August 5, 2010August 5, 2010

Nibbles: FARA, Khat, Pepsi in Peru

  • Another blog about FARA’s 2010 meeting, this post features our friend Ehsan Dulloo. (Where’s an aggregator when you need one?)
  • Mikrokhan masticates the khat economy. Would it really not grow locally?
  • PepsiCo invests USD3 million over 3 years in Peruvian potatoes. Why not use CIP?
Posted on August 4, 2010August 4, 2010

Nibbles: Iron beans, Tomatoes, Fruit, Africa college

  • Learn about iron beans from a HarvestPlus video, maybe.
  • Learn about the tomato in Ghana, more than you might need to know if you read all the reports.
  • Learn how Andy Jarvis spoke truth to ex-power, about fruit data gathering project prospects.
  • Learn how the Africa College, based at Leeds University in the UK, is working on a range of agricultural problems.
Posted on August 3, 2010August 3, 2010

Nibbles: Cryocourse, Pollination stats, Corn domestication

  • Bioversity and NBPGR India offering course on cryopreservation.
  • Scientia Pro Publica #35 blog carnival is up, with bees factchecked up the wazoo.
  • Big long post helps understand corn domestication dates in Chaco Canyon.
Posted on August 2, 2010August 2, 2010

Nibbles: Biochar, Breeding, Ag exports

  • Is biochar the answer for ag? asks the headline. No, but it might be an answer, we reply.
  • The Toad points us to a video on Organic Plant Breeding in Denmark.
  • Guess where China gets loads of its soybeans. And cotton. And nuts.

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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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