Nibbles – Page 453 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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.

October 22, 2007October 22, 2007

An African view for World Food Day

A locally-based prescription to fight food insecurity.

- 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