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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on October 7, 2008October 7, 2008

Nibbles: Cacao, Pamphlets, Breadfruit, Goats, Milk, Economic drivers, Truffles

  • Cacao comes in 10 “flavours”, not just 3.
  • PDFs of pamphlets on different aspects of agricultural biodiversity from FAO.
  • Diane Ragone interviewed on breadfruit.
  • Something for the weekend, Mr Goat?
  • Got yak milk?
  • High livestock prices mean lots of livestock on the land means low biodiversity on farmland. Here comes the science.
  • NatGeo video on the trouble with truffles.
Posted on October 4, 2008

Nibbles: Meat, Meet

  • Visayan warty piglet eaten. Python blamed.
  • Biodiversity and Agricultures: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Research for More Sustainable Farming”. Can’t wait for November 5th.
Posted on October 3, 2008October 3, 2008

Nibbles: Heirlooms, Seed, Ethnic cuisine, Meat, Sheep

  • “The ‘Heirloom Tomato Salad’ was made with a mix of Sweet 100 and Sungold tomatoes — both of which are hybrid varieties.”
  • FARMER’S NOTEBOOK: The importance of preserving native seed varieties.
  • Increasing culinary diversity in the US.
  • Eat a kangaroo and save the planet. No? How about moose then? You can have too much culinary diversity, perhaps.
  • Climate change: the silver lining.
Posted on October 2, 2008October 2, 2008

Nibbles: Polyploids, Testicular cooking, Genes, Mongoose, Pears

  • Parade of Polyploids! I know, but that’s what it says on the site.
  • Balls.
  • Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant: The Joy of Genes … Illustrated. Teachers, use it!
  • How mongooses got to Spain.
  • Pears that look like apples.
Posted on October 1, 2008October 2, 2008

Nibbles: Research, Chilli, Gardening, Mice

  • IFPRI says exchange of genetic resources a “best bet” for large-scale research investment. Ok, but why just research it? Why not just do it?
  • Too hot to handle.
  • World Food Garden. Via.
  • Another commensal fingerprinted.

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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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