Nibbles – Page 424 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

February 7, 2008

Micronutrients protect against malaria

Another reason to eat those orange bananas (and sweet potatoes).

February 6, 2008

Plant barcode gene identified

Plant barcoders finally find the gene.

February 5, 2008

Fina and flavour cocoa

More countries admitted to tasty chocolate club.

February 5, 2008February 5, 2008

New book on globalization

Vermeer’s Hat illuminates the birth of global trade, with agricultural products to the fore. Need to read.

February 4, 2008

Talking Plants

NPR’s Talking Plants blogger is in the Amazon.

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