Nibbles – Page 467 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

September 14, 2007

Live to eat

Learn about culinary tourism.

September 13, 2007

Dogs behaving well

Dogs are not dumbed-down wolves.

September 13, 2007

New Agriculturist

Latest New Agriculturist: focus on non-wood forest products.

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.

- 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