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Category: Nibbles

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Posted on June 25, 2021June 25, 2021

Nibbles: Early ag, Iberian aurochs, MusaNet, Disney tomatoes

  1. How people used cereals before agriculture in the Fertile Crescent (roughly speaking).
  2. Fast forward two thousand years and meet Elba, the shepherdess of Courel. And some aurochs.
  3. Nine thousand years later, MusaNet revamps its website…
  4. …and coconut revamps its conservation strategy.
  5. And finally, here are some post-agricultural tomatoes.
Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021

Nibbles: Harvest time, Wheat evaluation, Olive diversity, Maize museum, MAKEathon, Community seed banks

  1. Why bulls and cereals go together.
  2. Finding out which old wheats go together with good bread.
  3. How in situ and ex situ conservation can come together for olives in Catalonia.
  4. 60 maize landraces come together in a cool display.
  5. Coming together for African yam bean, starting on 7 July.
  6. How national genebanks and community seed banks can come together.
Posted on June 22, 2021June 21, 2021

Nibbles: Legume breeding, Hemp cultivation, Soybean breeding, Acacia taxonomy

  1. Freeing legumes in Africa.
  2. Hemp used to be much more free in Italy.
  3. The unfree history of soybeans in the US.
  4. Taxonomists are not free to rename acacias at will.
Posted on June 15, 2021

Nibbles: Linguistic diversity, Filipino rice, Cashew, Brassica domestication

  1. The need to save languages.
  2. Saving rice diversity in the Philippines.
  3. Cashews saving farmers in Guinea-Bissau.
  4. Understanding Brassica rapa diversity in order to save it.
Posted on June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

Nibbles: Apples, Millets, Miniatures, Transhumance, Ag origins, Seeds

  1. Rescuing apples in Appalachia.
  2. Rescuing millets in India.
  3. Painting mangoes in India. I suspect they don’t need rescuing.
  4. Transhumance in Georgia.
  5. It was the need for clothes, not food, that caused all the above.
  6. And yes, seeds are alive.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Dr Fiona Hay, seed scientist, on why we need genebanks, including seed banks.
    2. Prof. Richard Ellis retires. A genebank legend, as Fiona would probably agree.
    3. FAO exhibition goes From Seeds to Foods. By way of genebanks, no doubt.
    4. And peasants, of course. No, it’s not a derogatory word, settle down.
    5. Can Green Revolution breeding approaches (and genebanks) help peasants deal with climate change?
    6. Even genebanks need a back-up plan though.
    7. New Mexico genebank helps out Danish chef.
    8. The history of the Concord grape and its foxiness. Chefs intrigued.
    9. The history of Aport and Amasya apples. No foxiness involved, as far as I know. Genebanks? Probably.
    10. The origin of caffeine. Now do foxiness.
    11. Where did collards come from anyway? No, not genebanks. Bloody historians, always re-writing history.

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