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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on December 22, 2008December 21, 2008

Nibbles: Peas

  • Rebsie has exciting pea news. Seriously.
Posted on December 19, 2008December 19, 2008

Nibbles: GE, Grazing, Vanilla blight

  • Broccoli’s goodies engineered into tobacco. Jeremy comments: “Let them eat broccoli”.
  • Australians discover diversity: livestock graze grain (plants)!
  • Unidentified blight strikes Malagasy vanilla: lack of diversity to blame.
Posted on December 18, 2008August 24, 2026

Nibbles: Cuba

  • Cuba “years ahead”. “[S]olution à la crise alimentaire“.
Posted on December 16, 2008

Nibbles: Selection, Biofuels, Rice, Locavores, Sheep and Goats,

  • Malawian farmers select their own sorghum.
  • “Diverse landscapes are better: Policymakers urged to think broadly about biofuel crops.”
  • “Reclaiming Land and Farmers for Rice Cultivation“.
  • Local foods nourish local businesses.
  • “Domestic animals here eat almost anything“.
Posted on December 15, 2008December 15, 2008

Nibbles: Cheese, Seeds, Elephants

  • Never mind big-auto, bail-out for big cheese.
  • Millennium Seed Bank (still) pleading poverty.
  • Kimani avoids crops, one day at a time.

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Fresh Nibbles

    • China is building its germplasm collection at the National Frigid Zone Crop and Soybean Germplasm Resources Mid-term Bank in Harbin. Cool.
    • Driscoll’s helped build China’s blueberry industry, then discovered that knowledge, infrastructure and genetics have a habit of escaping. Not so cool.
    • Meanwhile, the Philippines wants its rice collection to hit 21,000 varieties by the end of the year. IRRI unavailable for comment.
    • Italy is establishing a major global olive genebank. Unclear where it fits in with other major global olive genebanks, but some redundancy is good.
    • FAO showcases Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, where crops, landscapes and traditional knowledge have survived together. Like olives in Italy, I guess.
    • The mangelwurzel is making a comeback, because apparently forgotten root vegetables just need better publicity, and not a fancy GIAHS.
    • Ohio growers are trying to save the pawpaw just as Americans are discovering it, partly because of better publicity.
    • BeanGPT is bringing AI to breeding and farming beans. Maybe it can help the mangelwurzel and pawpaw too?

    Published on September 23, 2026

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