Nibbles – Page 450 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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.

October 28, 2007

Save our shrooms

Meanwhile, the Dutch fight backÂ to save other mushrooms.

1. Haga Hideo’s 1950s photos of Fukushima farming rituals are now being used to revive them: ex situ conservation, but for culture.
2. Long before photography, or “pre‑breeding” was a buzzword, Belgian pomologist Jean‑Baptiste Van Mons was running massive pear selection trials and gifting us Beurré Bosc and Doyenné Boussock.
3. As Southern Africa’s miombo woodlands shrinks, scientists are cloning wild trees so the fruit — and food security — outlive the forest. Now for the pre-breeding.
4. Greenpeace Africa’s Seed Project makes the case for indigenous seeds as a route to farmer independence. And you can help.
5. And oh so coincidentally, a network of community seed banks in Kenya is rescuing indigenous seeds so the diversity is still around when opportunity (or crisis) knocks.
6. Also in Kenya, the national genebank’s collectors are racing to secure opportunity crops.
7. Nepal’s indigenous crops and landraces are at the same time more needed than ever, and under threat. So, much like in Kenya.
8. The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT says women are at the center of sustainable food systems; the fine print adds: “as they have always been.”
Published on September 30, 2026