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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on February 26, 2008February 26, 2008

Nibbles: Decoration, insects

  • (Agro)biodiversity used as personal decoration in the Omo Valley.
  • Eating bugs is good for you. No, really. FAO says so!
Posted on February 25, 2008February 26, 2008

Nibbles: golden rice, nutrition, organics, feral livestock

  • Pro golden rice PDF, via Eldis.
  • How to devise food-based dietary guidelines.
  • Is organic any better for you?
  • They shoot wild burros, don’t they?
Posted on February 24, 2008February 25, 2008

Nibbles: Genebanks, organic, fair, chocolate

  • American farming family gets tour of organic research farm and genebank in India, is impressed.
  • The International Agricultural Show is on, just outside Paris. Pres. Sarkozy available for comment.
  • A rapid run-through the history of chocolate, courtesy of Smithsonian.
Posted on February 22, 2008February 22, 2008

Nibbles: Carnival, Boars

  • Tangled Bank #99; apologies for the late link.
  • Participatory approach to wild boar problem — in Brighton, England!
Posted on February 20, 2008February 24, 2008

Nibbles: Honey, seeds, bioprospecting, chocolate

  • Haagen Dazs understands. No bees = no honey and no fruit.
  • Over-excited about seeds. Jeremy comments, “It’s that time of the year”.
  • South Korea bioprospecting in Costa Rica.
  • A round-up of recent (bad) news on the chocolate front.
  • Namibia: no country for vegetarians.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. What’s wrong with supermarkets.
    2. Cate Blanchett on the Millennium Seed Bank. Attitude to supermarkets unknown.
    3. Access & Benefit Sharing 101. Cate Blanchett unavailable for comment.
    4. Experts weigh in on how we should change how we eat. Nobody but Cate Blanchett will listen, but supermarkets and seeds feature, for what it’s worth.
    5. How they ate in the Middle Ages without supermarkets. Or at least harvested.
    6. After we’re done with medieval haymaking, let’s bring back the aurochs too. And put it in a supermarket?
    7. Yeah but what is a breed anyway? Or an aurochs, for that matter.

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