Nibbles – Page 448 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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.

October 28, 2007

Save our shrooms

Meanwhile, the Dutch fight backÂ to save other mushrooms.

October 28, 2007

Toadstools hunted in UK

Brits record waxcaps. World holds its breath.

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