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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on May 13, 2008May 13, 2008

Nibbles: Drugs, Cotton, Localsource, Bees, Sunflowers

  • Insights into Dutch cannabis breeding. Dude unavailable for comment.
  • Cotton diversity link-fest.
  • Head of World Food Programme on buying locally.
  • US bee health: not good. Via.
  • Australian sunflowers to improve US varieties; Luigi more confused than ever.
Posted on May 12, 2008May 12, 2008

Nibbles: NUS, Value-added, Values, Genebank, IPR

  • New Agriculturist focuses on neglected species.
  • Chocolate, wine… Fellow could have himself a pretty good weekend in Vegas with that lot.
  • Irish evaluate biodiversity, apparently ignore agriculture.
  • Sasa schemes to save Scottish landraces.
  • The Indian Seed and Patent Acts dissected.
Posted on May 9, 2008May 11, 2008

Nibbles: reindeer

  • Reindeer vary in domesticability, have been independently domesticated a couple of times. Santa Claus unavailable for comment.
Posted on May 8, 2008May 9, 2008

Nibbles: Ancient grains, ex situ, onions, organic, marine resources

  • Lots of new products feature ancient grains; King Tut unavailable for comment.
  • How genebanks work. Both Jeremy and Luigi available for comment and editing services.
  • Crackdown on onion smuggling.
  • Alleged myths about organic farming.
  • First Americans ate seaweed.
Posted on May 6, 2008May 6, 2008

Nibbles: Insects, EMBRAPA, Prices, Cuba, Supermarkets

  • Climate change threatens tropical insects and their pollination services.
  • Brazil rises in world genebank rankings.
  • Food price crisis advice summarized.
  • Cuba “sustainable” agriculture at crossroads.
  • Supermarkets bad for small farmers?

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Africa needs good forest seeds.
    2. And genetic monitoring of the resulting plantings, probably.
    3. The Caribbean also wants quality seed, and thinks a mobile seed bank is the way to get it.
    4. The only mobile things about New Zealand’s genebank are its collectors.
    5. A very mobile donation to the UK’s vegetable genebank.
    6. Nothing very mobile about Slow Beans 2025, but that’s the point.
    7. The long journey of honeysuckle.

    Published on January 20, 2026

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