Nibbles – Page 440 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

November 22, 2007March 3, 2026

Agriculture after conflict

The New Agriculturist has a feature on Agriculture After Conflict.

November 22, 2007

Pioneer agriculture

Photos of Frontier Culture Museum, including agrobiodiversity.

November 21, 2007

Corn husking contest

Keeping agricultural skills aliveÂ can be fun.

November 21, 2007November 21, 2007

Tasting apple diversity

Apples! Hundreds of ’em! Yum.

November 21, 2007

Jive turkey

Stop press: wild relative not in trouble.

1. A North Macedonian professor’s 15-year rescue mission for landraces and crops surviving only in remote villages. Why bother? Stay tuned…
2. Ancient grapevines in Tigray represent a unique genetic lineage with potential value for breeding varieties adapted to dryland conditions.
3. Hawai’i Public Radio checks in on Maui’s coconut genebank. Useful to breed varieties adapted to really wet conditions, presumably.
4. The Cayman Islands are also hoarding coconuts, along with lots of tasty fruits.
5. A USD 400,000 boost from Taiwan for the Eswatini national genebank. Indigenous vegetables get much-needed love.
6. A regional survey of 25 orphan crops across 13 Latin American countries finds quinoa and amaranth well-catalogued, but characterization budgets are the real bottleneck. Collecting and conserving in genebanks is great, but not enough.
7. South Korea puts 330,000 seed accessions under “double lock”, hedging against both climate change and war. Conserving in one place is not enough.
8. FAO warns that nearly a third of the world can’t afford the USD 4.28 a day that a healthy diet costs — nearly three billion people, and rising. That’s why we need al the above, I guess.
Published on July 28, 2026