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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. Kenyan farmers are rediscovering indigenous crops.
    2. Oman discovers it has lots of mango diversity, and moves to conserve it.
    3. Swedish student discovering varietal mixtures.
    4. Discover how a locally adapted cattle population in Japan became a globally recognized premium brand by maintaining distinctive genetic and breeding characteristics. Lessons there for all of the above perhaps?

    Published on June 30, 2026

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