Nibbles – Page 470 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

A new book to wait for

I can’t wait to read Darwinian Agriculture, to be published in 2009.

August 8, 2007August 8, 2007

Urban oenoculture

Urban oenoculture (in California).

August 7, 2007September 21, 2007

Lactose persistence

More on an agrobiodiversity-related bit of human diversity, for a change.

PVP in SADC

An update on plant variety protection in southern Africa.

August 7, 2007August 7, 2007

Coconut’s roots

The National Geographic Society has awarded US$ 20,000 to a study of coconut DNA that will shed light on its history before and after domestication.

1. What’s wrong with supermarkets.
2. Cate Blanchett on the Millennium Seed Bank. Attitude to supermarkets unknown.
3. Access & Benefit Sharing 101. Cate Blanchett unavailable for comment.
4. Experts weigh in on how we should change how we eat. Nobody but Cate Blanchett will listen, but supermarkets and seeds feature, for what it’s worth.
5. How they ate in the Middle Ages. Or at least harvested.
6. After we’re done with medieval haymaking, let’s bring back the aurochs too. And put it in a supermarket?
7. Yeah but what is a breed anyway? Or an aurochs.
Published on September 9, 2025