Nibbles – Page 455 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

October 2, 2007April 14, 2011

Opening the cerrado

Embrapa gets NYTimes write-up. Its genebanks unavailable for comment.

October 1, 2007

Poppy dearest

More on the Afghan opium poppyÂ legalization debate.

October 1, 2007October 1, 2007

Newsletter on organic seeds and plant breeding

Latest issue of the ECO-PB newsletter is available.

October 1, 2007October 2, 2007

IPM worth a fortune in New Zealand vineyards

NZ grape growers discover value of local biodiversity: NZ$1000 per ha per year.

September 30, 2007

Agrobiodiversity around the home

British homegardens to be surveyed.

1. What’s wrong with supermarkets.
2. Cate Blanchett on the Millennium Seed Bank. Attitude to supermarkets unknown.
3. Access & Benefit Sharing 101. Cate Blanchett unavailable for comment.
4. Experts weigh in on how we should change how we eat. Nobody but Cate Blanchett will listen, but supermarkets and seeds feature, for what it’s worth.
5. How they ate in the Middle Ages without supermarkets. Or at least harvested.
6. After we’re done with medieval haymaking, let’s bring back the aurochs too. And put it in a supermarket?
7. Yeah but what is a breed anyway? Or an aurochs, for that matter.
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