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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on September 23, 2007September 23, 2007

Poisonous agrobiodiversity

UK’s only public garden of “poisonous” plants opens at Alnwick Castle.

Posted on September 22, 2007September 22, 2007

Biofuels bad

Rapeseed biofuel “produces more greenhouse gas than oil or petrol”.

Posted on September 22, 2007September 22, 2007

National fruit of Cambodia

Chicken egg banana. Not diversity, a variety name.

Posted on September 21, 2007September 21, 2007

How domestication happens

Blog commentary on a paper about serendipitous backyard domestication.

Posted on September 21, 2007September 21, 2007

Atomic energy for agriculture

Make food not war: FAO head praises International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. AI doesn’t recognize tropical agriculture very well.
    2. So presumably it can’t easily be used in assessing climate change impacts in agricultural heritage systems? FAO has some ideas on how to do it.
    3. Maybe rice heritage systems can be used to make cheese.
    4. I bet Andean blueberry (Vaccinium floribundum) goes great with rice cheese.
    5. But if not, heritage apples will probably do.
    6. The Hungarian genebank is hoping to inject heritage grains into non-heritage agricultural systems. AI and FAO unavailable for comment.
    7. Maybe AI can help with the mystery of this old seed collection at the Natural History Museum, London.

    Published on April 2, 2026

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