Nibbles – Page 451 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

October 24, 2007October 24, 2007

Turks discuss organic farming

A report from the 1st Organic Farming Congress at BahÃ§eÅŸehir University in Turkey.

October 23, 2007

A cartoon about blogging

Mega meta: Luigi and Jeremy unavailable for comment.

October 23, 2007

Village peanut sheller

Wanna add value to peanuts? Here’s one way.

October 23, 2007October 23, 2007

Capers packed with antioxidants

Salted capers are good for you. (Actually, they’re good. period.)

October 22, 2007April 14, 2011

Giant African snail both treat and menace

African mini-livestock species runs amok in Brazil.

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