Nibbles – Page 453 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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.

October 22, 2007October 22, 2007

US National Agricultural Library blog

This could be fun: InfoFarm is a blog at the US National Agricultural Library. via IAALD.

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