Nibbles

Nibbles: MSB birthday, Ethiopia impact, Coffee threats, African greens

It’s 20 years of the Millennium Seed Bank. Happy birthday!
CGIAR summarizes 20 years of impact in Ethiopia.
In 20 years, half of Africa’s coffee land could be gone. Well, 30, but I need to keep this streak going.
Must have been about 20 years ago that systematic research on African indigenous vegetables really took off, and now look.

USDA throws shade on EU’s Farm to Fork strategy. I see trouble in its future.
Turns out jute has a future.
Is CRISPR the banana’s future?
How Svalbard gave ICARDA’s genebank a future.
Ensuring the future of Ethiopia’s livestock through forage seeds.
The future of Europe’s meadows is livestock. No word on forage seed or Farm to Fork.

Avocado value chain gets it together. Hope some money flows back to the genebank.
Indian women fall back on vegetable seeds.
A seed saving network takes root in Kenya.
CGN teams up with BGI to sequence its lettuce collection.

Genebanks for nutrition. Indeed they are.
Hot peppers may be good for you. Genebanks alerted.
For Aboriginal Australians, knowledge is held by the living landscape, and humans get together to animate it. Fascinating.
Humans getting together to rescue near-extinct plants from wounded landscapes of North America.
There’s a database of animal feeds for sub-Saharan Africa. Could do with being mashed up with genebank databases, no?
Agriculture under communism wasn’t all that communist. At least in E. Germany. I wonder what they were fed.
A 4000-year-old apple core found in Vienna. Any DNA though?