- Seeds4all website launched to help make seeds available to all.
- Why, you ask? Read this.
- Beautiful book on the diversity of African cattle from ILRI.
- The bloody history of food.
- Decolonize your diet with fonio.
- Domestic rabbits are pretty wild.
Nibbles: Apple museum, Colonialism museum, Mohawk seeds, India2Africa, DivSeek vid
- A cool apple museum in Wenatchee, Washington.
- Cool museum exhibit on German colonial exploitation of agricultural raw materials, in Hamburg.
- Mohawk culture and teaching embodied in seeds. And not in a museum.
- Indian legumes a hit in Ghana, via genebanks, not museums.
- Long video from IPK on using data to use genebanks. You mean like above?
Nibbles: Wheat Revolutions, Animal domestication, Sanbokan, Sea Island heirlooms, No regrets transformation, Peruvian smallholders, Seed systems book, Genebank vid, Business
- BBC Food Programme on wheat, with the authors of Amber Waves and The Man Who Tried to Feed the World.
- Tides of History podcast on livestock domestication with Prof. Greger Larson. He thinks “domestication” should be used as a descriptor of a state rather than a label for a process. He also thinks that animals became “domesticated” basically only once (except for pigs).
- A citrus fruit you never heard of is crucial to Japanese cuisine.
- Bringing back heirloom rice and other traditional crops in the Sea Islands. And more.
- Building back better: from 200 food systems recommendation to 41 no regrets actions. And why we need them NOW!
- A Peruvian peasant organization goes digital.
- Huge book on strengthening seed systems in South Asia.
- Nice CGN video on seed processing in genebanks.
- How can businesses value biodiversity? Here come the guidelines.
Nibbles: Costich leaving seminar, Dibble video, AnGR plan, Building back better
- Dr Denise Costich says goodbye to the CIMMYT maize genebank. Sad.
- Dr Flint Dibble talks to himself about his Neolithic package.
- Europe’s plan for conserving transboundary livestock breeds.
- How are genebanks doing in the pandemic?
Nibbles: CWR, Data, Fires
- Yep, it’s Crop Wild Relative Week again! Never gets old.
- The work of a genebank is never done, NordGen documentation edition.
- Why genebanks? Let these people in the US Northwest tell you why genebanks.