Nibbles – Page 448 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

October 31, 2007October 31, 2007

Vegetables growing on Greenland

Greenland greens up: arctic monkeys say “pah”.

October 30, 2007

Kiwifruit returns to China

Kiwifruit goes home. ET unavailable for comment.

October 30, 2007October 30, 2007

Boiling increases nutritional value of peanuts

Boiled peanuts better for you: williamsii unavailable for comment.

October 29, 2007October 29, 2007

How to classify wines in a library

New classes for wine: librarians unavailable for comment.

October 29, 2007October 28, 2007

An agrotourism farm in India

Agrotourism on a farm in Maharashtra, India.

1. In the UK, Herefordshire’s Museum of Cider is picking up national recognition for its genebank of heritage apple trees. The BBC’s canonical autumnal apple story comes a little early this year.
2. Speaking of iconic apples, Kazakhstan is scaling up efforts to bring back the Aport, the giant heirloom that once made Almaty famous. No word of museums, though. Or cider.
3. Over in the Philippines, Department of Environment and Natural Resources is beefing up its rattan genebank to keep pace with demand, with forest stewards in Bukidnon planting seedlings to match. Furniture makers need genebanks as much as cider makers.
4. Sri Lanka’s pre-Green Revolution heirloom rice varieties, purana haal, are being eyed for their resilience and disease-management potential. Good thing they’re in the national genebank.
5. Saudi Arabia’s Jazan terraced coffee farms are turning into rural and ecotourism hotspots, proving not all agrobiodiversity needs to be in a genebank to survive. But it helps.
Published on August 9, 2026