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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on November 1, 2008November 1, 2008

Nibbles: Anthrax, Sheep

  • The perils of working with agrobiodiversity products.
  • “The Nejdi sheep of today are much more beautiful than those of 10 years ago.”
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.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. A little more safety for Ukraine’s seeds, thanks to a new genebank.
    2. A little more safety for Mexico’s native maize, thanks to Pres. Sheinbaum.
    3. A little more safety for Andean agriculture, thanks to Ecuadorian Indigenous women and Inside Mater in Peru.
    4. A little more safety for Ischia’s zampognaro bean and Amalfi’s lemons, thanks to local people (and GIAHS).
    5. A little more safety for Pacific crops, thanks to cryopreservation. Breadfruit next?
    6. A little more safety for moringa? At least in Africa with all its “opportunity crops”?

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