Nibbles – Page 481 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

July 21, 2007July 21, 2007

Sorghum beer

Ok, maybe 126. Sorghum beer, anyone?

July 20, 2007July 21, 2007

Beer diversity

There are 125 different styles of beer. I just need a cold one.

Liberian rice farmers can’t get hold of seeds

Risk of (more) rice genetic erosion in Liberia?

Taro wine

Japanese like taro wine made in Palau. Hugh Johnson unavailable for comment.

July 19, 2007July 19, 2007

Street legal

Man finds way to make legal absinthe in the US.

1. Haga Hideo’s 1950s photos of Fukushima farming rituals are now being used to revive them: ex situ conservation, but for culture.
2. Long before photography, or “pre‑breeding” was a buzzword, Belgian pomologist Jean‑Baptiste Van Mons was running massive pear selection trials and gifting us Beurré Bosc and Doyenné Boussock.
3. As Southern Africa’s miombo woodlands shrinks, scientists are cloning wild trees so the fruit — and food security — outlive the forest. Now for the pre-breeding.
4. Greenpeace Africa’s Seed Project makes the case for indigenous seeds as a route to farmer independence. And you can help.
5. And oh so coincidentally, a network of community seed banks in Kenya is rescuing indigenous seeds so the diversity is still around when opportunity (or crisis) knocks.
6. Also in Kenya, the national genebank’s collectors are racing to secure opportunity crops.
7. Nepal’s indigenous crops and landraces are at the same time more needed than ever, and under threat. So, much like in Kenya.
8. The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT says women are at the center of sustainable food systems; the fine print adds: “as they have always been.”
Published on September 30, 2026