Nibbles – Page 488 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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.

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!

1. Festivals, rituals and seed-saving go hand in hand, as this photo essay on Koraput’s Adivasis shows for World Indigenous Peoples Day.
2. Speaking of unlikely alliances, Israeli and Palestinian researchers have teamed up on wheat that can take the heat in a warming, drying Middle East.
3. Not to be outdone in the resilience stakes, the cowpea shrugs off both drought and flooding, according to FAO.
4. If all this talk of resilient crops has you inspired, here’s a how-to on starting your own community seed bank, in South Africa or anywhere else for that matter.
5. And for when preservation is really about nostalgia: Romania’s Buzau genebank is keeping childhood mint flavours alive, chocolate, clove and vanilla notes included.
Published on August 13, 2026