Nibbles – Page 486 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

Non-Wood Forest Products

The new NWFP-Digest is out.

Biofuels blog

A whole blog on “low-input, high-diversity” biofuels.

Report on biofuels

GRAIN’s report on biofuels is generating lots of heat.

IITA cores its yams

A core collection has been identified for West African yams.

June 28, 2007August 11, 2009

Cattle and biodiversity

Cattle grazing sustains plant diversity in Dutch dune ecosystems.

1. Another genebank in Australia. Unclear how it relates to the existing ones.
2. Ghana’s genebank in funding trouble.
3. How to run a community seed bank, according to the Bureau of Indian Standards. Apparently includes things like its relationship with other genebanks and funding.
4. How to change legislation in Kenya to be more supportive of genebanks.
5. Why we need genebanks in the first place.
6. Otherwise decent podcast on the potato manages not to mention genebanks.
7. Otherwise decent article on ube (Dioscorea alata) manages not to mention genebanks.
8. Otherwise excellent dissection of the strawberry manages not to mention genebanks.
Published on June 16, 2026