Nibbles – Page 426 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

January 31, 2008

Survey of European attitudes to biodiversity loss published

Europeans worried about biodiversity loss. Agrobiodiversity unavailable for comment.

January 30, 2008

Origin of European potatoes

DNA from old potato herbarium specimens re-writes textbooks.

January 30, 2008January 31, 2008

New book

Lost African fruits found.

January 29, 2008

Lies, damn lies

Nutritional statistics in trouble.

January 26, 2008January 26, 2008

Neolithic transitions

Dating agricultural spread in Europe from earliest appearance of cereals at archaeological sites.

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