Nibbles – Page 484 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

IHSH

The new Chronica Horticulturae is out.

June 7, 2007June 7, 2007

Sheep weed vineyards

A novel use for highly trained sheep: weeding vineyards.

Documenting field data

From LEISA, methodologies and experiences in documenting field data.

Maple syrup forever

Never mind about peanuts and potatoes, maple syrup trees are even more threatened by climate change.

June 5, 2007June 5, 2007

How rhizobia work

Another attempt to persuade non-leguminous plants to enter into a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with rhizobia.

1. China announces a slew of seed-related measures.
2. A slew of seeds kept apples diverse in the US South, but not so much any more.
3. Fortunately there’s a slew of apples, among many other things, in the USDA genebank system.
4. Dates too, probably, but this article is actually about the (complementary?) collection at Arizona State University.
5. A slew of intellectual protections has been good for seed companies. But consumers?
6. IFG no doubts benefits mightily from intellectual property protection of its grape varieties. The diversity of which you can peruse on this nice website.
7. Speaking of nice websites, this one helps farmers pick-a-mix of crops. Intercropping is diversity too.
8. How the coffee industry is trying to cope with a slew of sustainability rules. Yeah, sometimes IP protection is not enough.
9. But who owns heritage varieties?
10. Including heritage varieties of Belgian malting barley and other cereals.
11. Speaking of malting, they use sorghum in Tanzania.
12. It’s unclear what heritage varieties went into making horse-bread, but I’d like to taste the stuff.
13. But who needs bread (or beer?) anyway? There’s a slew of root and tuber crops in Africa and elsewhere just waiting to solve hunger…
14. …as Guyana knows well.
15. Wanna keep track of (most of) the above? FAO has you (sorta) covered via a slew of indicators.
Published on September 26, 2023