Nibbles – Page 496 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

June 11, 2007June 11, 2007

Pharaonic eats

Ancient Egyptian cooking.

June 11, 2007June 11, 2007

African veggies

Papers on African leafy vegetables online.

June 11, 2007June 11, 2007

Wheat & rice systems

Improving productivity of rice-wheat cropping system does not mention CGIAR research. Odd.

Baguette to the future

A history of french bread.

June 8, 2007June 8, 2007

Perennial wheat

Breeding perennial wheat: the search continues.

1. In the UK, Herefordshire’s Museum of Cider is picking up national recognition for its genebank of heritage apple trees. The BBC’s canonical autumnal apple story comes a little early this year.
2. Speaking of iconic apples, Kazakhstan is scaling up efforts to bring back the Aport, the giant heirloom that once made Almaty famous. No word of museums, though. Or cider.
3. Over in the Philippines, Department of Environment and Natural Resources is beefing up its rattan genebank to keep pace with demand, with forest stewards in Bukidnon planting seedlings to match. Furniture makers need genebanks as much as cider makers.
4. Sri Lanka’s pre-Green Revolution heirloom rice varieties, purana haal, are being eyed for their resilience and disease-management potential. Good thing they’re in the national genebank.
5. Saudi Arabia’s Jazan terraced coffee farms are turning into rural and ecotourism hotspots, proving not all agrobiodiversity needs to be in a genebank to survive. But it helps.
Published on August 9, 2026