Skip to content

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …

  • Home
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Contact

Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on February 18, 2008February 19, 2008

Nibbles: Japan, BBC TV, sauce, basmati, banana

  • Indoor farms in Tokyo, growing a diversity of non-pot crops, to train yoof. Via.
  • BBC News web site picks up on BBC World TV documentary on neglected species.
  • The geography of sauce in South Carolina.
  • India and Pakistan find something to agree on: basmati rice.
  • Have we already mentioned this new book on bananas?
Posted on February 17, 2008

Reflections on dog breeding

Nice pictures of livestock guardian dog breeds. And a plea for lumping.

Posted on February 17, 2008February 18, 2008

Calling a spade a spade

An – ahem – unusual view of the Green Revolution. Via 2blowhards.

Posted on February 15, 2008

History of lettuce

Romaine, the oldest lettuce…

Posted on February 14, 2008

Mound builders of Norte Chico

Transitioning to agriculture on Peruvian coast 5000 years ago.

Posts pagination

Previous page Page 1 … Page 420 Page 421 Page 422 … Page 496 Next page

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.

    Published on September 9, 2025

Updates … delivered

Subscribe in a feed reader

Recent comments

  • A breed is a breed is a breed? – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog on Old knowledge, new respect
  • A breed is a breed is a breed? – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog on Nibbles: Supermarkets, Cate Blanchett, ABS, Transformation, Medieval haymaking, Aurochs rewilding, Breed concept
  • The Kunming Manifesto surfaces – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog on 3rd International Agrobiodiversity Congress winds down
  • Luigi Guarino on Before the flood
  • Johannes Engels on Before the flood
Proudly powered by WordPress