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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on November 19, 2008November 19, 2008

Nibbles: Sorghum, Baobab, Coffee squared

  • Mosutlhwane? Rice from sorghum. Botswana goes for self-sufficiency.
  • Sustainable baobab.
  • Growing caffeine-free coffee.
  • And, coincidentally, a blog post on wild coffees from Madagascar.
Posted on November 18, 2008November 18, 2008

Nibbles: Turkey, Core, Cattle, Aquaculture

  • “Third biggest genebank in the world” to be built in Turkey.
  • Hari honoured!
  • Kudos for Cundiff!
  • Aquaculture. What is it good for?
  • “The oldest domesticated animal known…”
Posted on November 17, 2008

Nibbles: Spuds, Water, Fungi

  • Potatoes from seed. Anyone (with a garden) can do this.
  • Orwell on irrigation.
  • Edible phonebooks (some assembly needed).

Posted on November 14, 2008November 16, 2008

Nibbles: Sturgeon, UK, Goats, Bees

  • North America’s largest freshwater fish saved from extinction.
  • 10 years ago, Britain’s National Trust turned “its biggest managed farm into a gigantic experiment as an antidote to intensive farming” in Snowdonia.
  • The origin of the goat investigated.
  • Tracking bees.
Posted on November 13, 2008November 13, 2008

Nibbles: Coffea, Tequila, Livestock wild relatives, Rice wine, Vit. D, Statistics

  • Wild coffee studied; report from Madagascar.
  • Adding value to tequila. Lots of value.
  • Vietnamese farmers go wild.
  • Vietnamese farmers get drunk.
  • All about Vitamin D.
  • “…cranberries are the neglected stepchild of the season.”
  • What does that make the turkey?
  • Gates Foundation moves into space. Via.

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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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