- Ancient potato.
- Ancient pottery.
- Ancient dog breed?
- Oldish botanical illustrations.
- Old argument: diversification or specialization?
- Even older argument: what’s a species?
Nibbles: Genebanks everywhere
- Genebanks on the BBC.
- A genebank for the Kahnawa’kehró:non.
- A genebank for Maharashtra.
- A (grapevine) genebank genotyped.
- A (potato) genebank used.
- A new tool for (coconut) genebanks.
Nibbles: Ancient Levant, Guinness cherry, NBPGR, Maize in Africa
- More than milk and honey.
- A very large cherry.
- A very large genebank.
- Let them eat sorghum, Zambian president says.
- That’s not an option for the Hopi.
Nibbles: Pasta al forno, Polynesian dispersal, Ryan Phelan talk
- More evidence that some food staples are going to be in trouble.
- Samoa to Rapa Nui in 400 years. But the Americas before that? Mash up with banana, taro and sweet potato next.
- TED talk on genetic rescue.
Nibbles: Humble spud, Perry obsession, Eating to Extinction, Peasant studies
- The story of the potato in Poland.
- The story of one man’s obsession with the pear.
- Nice extract from Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino. Get the whole book to get the full story!
- Free version of the classic Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions by Philip McMichael. The story? “Revaluing of food system diversity, and public and planetary health, reformulates the current agrarian question, rejecting food regime capital-centrism.”