Nibbles – Page 482 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

Hot is cool

Great opportunities for spices.

June 28, 2007June 28, 2007

Rooibos and climate change

The wild relative might offer some additional options to rooibos tea farmers in South Africa as climate change hits.

June 28, 2007September 24, 2007

Biofuels in the UK

Sunflower in the UK? Yep, and then some!

June 28, 2007June 28, 2007

Marine genetic resources

More on marine genetic resources, from Earth Negotiations Bulletin.

Access and benefit sharing in Namibia

Roundup on the status of access and benefit sharing legislation in Namibia.

1. Times of India says “India needs a new doomsday seed vault.” Why not just use the one already there in Svalbard?
2. Meanwhile, women in the Sundarban are doing it for themselves.
3. Maybe it’s community doomsday seed vaults that India needs?
4. Fiji’s cassava is facing a doomsday of its own.
5. Georgia — the country — is working on a documentary on crop diversity which will no doubt include their seed deposit in Svalbard.
6. Kenya has a pretty good community genebanks video of its own.
7. Nigeria is all over crop diversity. Not just once, but twice.
8. Coffee prices going up? Can you imagine what will happen if we don’t conserve enough of its diversity?
9. Want more examples of the coolness of crop diversity and its guardians? Slow Food has your back.
10. La Via Campesina needs to encouragement either, where “peasant seeds” and their guardians are concerned.
11. Even the World Economic Forum wants in on the act.
12. And yet the seed sector seems…reluctant?
13. Good job Genesys is getting faster, eh?
Published on June 2, 2025