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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on June 30, 2021July 1, 2021

Nibbles: Dog domestication, Rice heirlooms, Jungle cities

  1. Dogs as Swiss army knives.
  2. Heritage rice in Bengal and Assam.
  3. The low-density, agrarian approach to ancient urbanism in the humid tropics.
  4. An example of the above from Tikal.
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.

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    1. Pearl millet is getting the hybrid treatment. And, loving it.
    2. Want to know what to grow in your garden? Yes, even pearl millet.
    3. Nice pics of Armenian landscapes, food and foodways. No pearl millet in sight.
    4. The latest monthly newsletter from The Botanist in the Kitchen does seeds. Pearl millet unavailable for comment.
    5. China is genotyping and phenotyping (almost) everything. Pearl millet feeling left out.
    6. If pearl millet fails, there is always pastoralism. No, wait…

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