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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on March 11, 2009March 11, 2009

Nibbles: Aquaculture, Philippines organic, Risk mapping, Jatropha, Plum

  • FAO’s Regional Aquaculture Information System (RAIS) website launched. Covers the Gulf states.
  • Pinoy farmers urged to go organic.
  • Climate change risk mapped in SE Asia. Cambodia surrenders.
  • Local weed makes good in Mexico.
  • The Prunus mume collection at the Beijing Botanic Garden.
Posted on March 10, 2009

Nibbles: Aquaculture squared, Food policy, School, Beer

  • More audio aquaponics goodness.
  • “The road from growing rice to raising shrimp to misery.”
  • Angola’s national strategy on food, nutritional security includes seeds. Anyone know more?
  • Handbook for School Gardens.
  • Oh no, climate change to screw up Czech hops! Now I’m really mad.
Posted on March 9, 2009

Nibbles: Breeding cucumbers, Seed exchange, Rice ecosystem, Viroids, GIS

  • Psst, wanna breed a cucumber? With video goodness.
  • Hudson Valley Seed Library.
  • “One duck creates boundless treasure.”
  • Potato spindle tuber viroids go back to the beginning of life on Earth. Kinda.
  • AGCommons’ Quick Wins: geospatial technology for smallholder farmers. Via.
Posted on March 7, 2009March 8, 2009

Nibbles: Ginseng, Worms, Cities

  • Biodiversity in cultivated Panax notoginseng populations.
  • Worms add value to waste.
  • Urban homesteading? Whatever next?
Posted on March 6, 2009March 6, 2009

Nibbles: Soy, Horse, Terroir, Sorghum, Ensete

  • The joy of soy.
  • Earliest known domestic horses.
  • More than anyone could possibly want to know about biochar and biodiversity (Part III).
  • Sorghum difference yield map, see how they grow.
  • Mathilda on ensete in highland Ethiopia.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. A North Macedonian professor’s 15-year rescue mission for landraces and crops surviving only in remote villages. Why bother? Stay tuned…
    2. Ancient grapevines in Tigray represent a unique genetic lineage with potential value for breeding varieties adapted to dryland conditions.
    3. Hawai’i Public Radio checks in on Maui’s coconut genebank. Useful to breed varieties adapted to really wet conditions, presumably.
    4. The Cayman Islands are also hoarding coconuts, along with lots of tasty fruits.
    5. A USD 400,000 boost from Taiwan for the Eswatini national genebank. Indigenous vegetables get much-needed love.
    6. A regional survey of 25 orphan crops across 13 Latin American countries finds quinoa and amaranth well-catalogued, but characterization budgets are the real bottleneck. Collecting and conserving in genebanks is great, but not enough.
    7. South Korea puts 330,000 seed accessions under “double lock”, hedging against both climate change and war. Conserving in one place is not enough.
    8. FAO warns that nearly a third of the world can’t afford the USD 4.28 a day that a healthy diet costs — nearly three billion people, and rising. That’s why we need al the above, I guess.

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