Nibbles – Page 438 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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Earliest use of cacao dated

Mesoamericans drank fermented cacao pulp 3000 years ago.

November 13, 2007

Dryland, Livestock/Wildlife Environment Interface Project

Fatter livestock, more wild animals, honey. The elusive win-win-win?

November 13, 2007

Caribbean food and health

Lubin finds nutritional info on Caribbean foods.

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Paris Hilton and agrobiodiversity

Paris Hilton worried about elephants getting drunk on rice beer. Pocket pig bandwagon awaits her.

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Garlic; cooking and diversity

How to cook garlic. Oh, and also how to identify duplicates in garlic germplasm collections by DNA fingerprinting.

1. The COUSIN project aims to conserve (trans situ, no less) and use crop wild relatives in Europe.
2. That “use” part can be tough.
3. But that doesn’t stop the fine people at Aardaia. At least where aardaker (Lathyrus tuberosus) is concerned.
4. From alternative potatoes in the Netherlands to alternative beans in Indonesia. All in the cause of diversification.
5. No need to find an alternative to amaranth in the American SW. Not with devoted chefs on the job.
6. The Iraqi Seed Collective is taking seeds from American genebanks to that country’s diaspora in the US, and eventually back to Iraq itself. Maybe chefs will help.
7. Good thing there are genebank backups, eh?
Published on July 9, 2025