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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. Kurdistan inaugurates a new genebank in Sulaymaniyah, which Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani calls one of Kurdistan and Iraq’s most important national projects.
    2. Ghana complements its national collection at Bunso. The new facility further north will improve drying, processing and conservation, while giving northern farmers and breeders closer access to crop diversity.
    3. Three decades of African bean research partnerships and networking have helped turn a staple crop into a vehicle for improved nutrition, livelihoods and climate resilience.
    4. In the Philippines, eight promising purple-yam accessions combine yield, sensory quality and market appeal, with Villasis 2 producing up to 60 tonnes per hectare in trials. Does it need a network next?
    5. However, executive director of Seed Savers Exchange Mike Bollinger’s call in Food Tank’s to carry seed diversity forward extends stewardship beyond formal institutions: Indigenous communities, farmers, gardeners and seed libraries all have a role in keeping crop diversity alive and used.

    Published on August 27, 2026

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