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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on October 31, 2008October 31, 2008

Nibbles: Toms, Virus, Svalbard, CIRAD

  • More on those purple tomatoes. And there’s lots more where that came from.
  • Virus weakens the response of genes that normally boost defense against pest.
  • “Superman had it right.”
  • Yeah, but France has genebanks too.
  • Dispatches from Terra Madre: “How are you fighting racism in your food community?”
Posted on October 30, 2008October 30, 2008

Nibbles: Wild food, Sisal, Cucurbits, Carnival, Rice blight

  • Zimbabwean take to wild foods, and not in a good way.
  • “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see my sisal flooring.”
  • Gourds+Halloween=Jawdropping Creativity.
  • Tangled Bank 117.

  • “Terror agent” listing for Xanthomanas oryzae blights US rice research.
Posted on October 29, 2008October 30, 2008

Nibbles: Big tent, Certification, Macadamia, Wild harvest, Last meals

  • Biodiversity and ecosystems experts to enter big tent: any room for agriculture?
  • Japan to recognize sustainable practices that value biological diversity in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries via cute logo.
  • Saving drought-resistant macadamia.
  • Free food!
  • Endangered food.
Posted on October 28, 2008October 28, 2008

Nibbles: Nibbles, Nibbles, Nibbles

  1. Terra Madre day 4: Fast Nibbles.
  2. Biggest Chinese nibble in the world.
  3. Martin Luther’s nibbles.
Posted on October 27, 2008October 27, 2008

Nibbles: Creole cooking, Cattle, Greenhouses, Cartograms

  • Seychelles’ “living botanical herbarium of Creole Culture.”
  • Kerala tries to save Vechur cattle.
  • Terra Madre day 3: Tom ♥ Vandana.
  • Pix of how intelligent greenhouses can be used to grow huge vegetables. I wonder if these technique can be applied to regenerating accessions in genebanks
  • Don’t you just love cartograms?

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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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