Nibbles – Page 448 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

November 6, 2007

Fish as biofuel feedstock

Fish waste as biofuel: Izaak Walton unavailable for comment.

November 5, 2007

Oldest sausage recipe found

Bratwurst: adding value to agrobiodiversity for 600 years.

November 3, 2007

Food data online at NAL

Historic USDA food composition tables digitized.

November 2, 2007

Human and baobab distribution in Mali

People and baobabs are kinda symbiotic.

November 2, 2007November 3, 2007

Community-based gardening for yoofs

How to interest children in gardening: weeding doesn’t cut it.

- China is building its germplasm collection at the National Frigid Zone Crop and Soybean Germplasm Resources Mid-term Bank in Harbin. Cool.
- Driscoll’s helped build China’s blueberry industry, then discovered that knowledge, infrastructure and genetics have a habit of escaping. Not so cool.
- Meanwhile, the Philippines wants its rice collection to hit 21,000 varieties by the end of the year. IRRI unavailable for comment.
- Italy is establishing a major global olive genebank. Unclear where it fits in with other major global olive genebanks, but some redundancy is good.
- FAO showcases Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, where crops, landscapes and traditional knowledge have survived together. Like olives in Italy, I guess.
- The mangelwurzel is making a comeback, because apparently forgotten root vegetables just need better publicity, and not a fancy GIAHS.
- Ohio growers are trying to save the pawpaw just as Americans are discovering it, partly because of better publicity.
- BeanGPT is bringing AI to breeding and farming beans. Maybe it can help the mangelwurzel and pawpaw too?
Published on September 23, 2026