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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on September 11, 2007

Animal genetic resources

Final report on the Interlaken conference on animal genetic resources.

Posted on September 11, 2007

Apple genebank in trouble

Will the UK’s National Fruit Collection survive?

Posted on September 10, 2007July 3, 2019

Traditional rice cultivation at risk

Saving the Ifugao rice terraces, and their agrobiodiversity.

Posted on September 10, 2007

Longest maize ears in the world

They’re as long as your arm, and celebrated each year in Jala, Mexico.

Posted on September 10, 2007September 10, 2007

Forest cover increases in El Salvador

Trees grow on money.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Festivals, rituals and seed-saving go hand in hand, as this photo essay on Koraput’s Adivasis shows for World Indigenous Peoples Day.
    2. Speaking of unlikely alliances, Israeli and Palestinian researchers have teamed up on wheat that can take the heat in a warming, drying Middle East.
    3. Not to be outdone in the resilience stakes, the cowpea shrugs off both drought and flooding, according to FAO.
    4. If all this talk of resilient crops has you inspired, here’s a how-to on starting your own community seed bank, in South Africa or anywhere else for that matter.
    5. And for when preservation is really about nostalgia: Romania’s Buzau genebank is keeping childhood mint flavours alive, chocolate, clove and vanilla notes included.

    Published on August 13, 2026

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