Nibbles – Page 466 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

September 13, 2007September 13, 2007

COGENT has a new web site

New web site for International Coconut Genetic Resources Network (COGENT).

September 12, 2007

Studying wild sunflowers

Rare wild sunflower gets the treatment.

September 12, 2007

The bottom billion

Fair trade: charity to keep the poor producing the crops that made them so?

September 12, 2007September 12, 2007

Agriculture policy in Kerala

Kerala proposes traditional agriculture to promote food security.

September 11, 2007

Animal genetic resources

Final report on the Interlaken conference on animal genetic resources.

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