Nibbles – Page 468 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

Agave paper

There’s a paper out on the diversity of Agave in Mexico, the source of tequila.

Insect diet

A Kenyan researcher tries to get people to eat more insects.

May 30, 2007May 30, 2007

Buzzing wake up call

Jennifer Dotson’s letter to the Washington Post about bee declines refers to “forgotten soldiers of the food supply”. I like that.

May 28, 2007May 28, 2007

Position of the American Dietetic Association

Position of the American Dietetic Association: We can conserve natural resources and support sustainability.

May 28, 2007May 28, 2007

Monsanto buys up seed producers

Monsanto proudly announces the formation of a group to buy up seed companies.

1. Q&A with an archaeobotanist looking into the domestication history of maize and gourds.
2. Q&A with the curators of the University of California, Riverside Citrus Variety Collection.
3. Q&A on the shea tree genome.
4. CIP’s potato cryobank. There’s probably a Q&A somewhere too.
5. Snippets of a review of an interesting-sounding book about the almost-forgotten Pignolo grape.
6. Snippets of the Indigenous ecological knowledge used by traditional agriculturalists in India.
7. A more systematic approach to documenting and protecting Indigenous ecological knowledge from Australia.
Published on December 1, 2021