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Category: Nutrition

Posted on October 25, 2008October 25, 2008

Nibbles: Cereal, Bushmeat, Aquaculture, Olive oil

  • Neolithic parboiled bulgur wheat.
  • Applying “catch shares” to bushmeat.
  • The pros and cons of fish farming in Latin America.
  • “It’s a masochistic business. Masochistic.”
Posted on October 24, 2008October 24, 2008

Nibbles: Bananas, Avocadoes, Slow Food, Chilli, Sweet potatoes

  • Red bananas: one man’s story.
  • Avocado mayonnaise: one woman’s story.
  • Terra Madre, Day 1: one man’s story. Almost like being there.
  • Indoor hot pepper: someone’s grandad’s story.
  • Sweet potatoes: several people’s stories.
Posted on September 22, 2008September 23, 2008

Nibbles: Goats, Fowl, Goats & fowl, Bees

  • Kenyans turn to dairy goats.
  • Ugandans advised to turn to local chickens.
  • Kenyans told: “Change your old farming methods or face starvation.” Jeremy says: “I’m confused.”
  • Irish bees — rescue plan. Thanks Danny.
Posted on September 20, 2008

Nibbles: Moringa, Gardening

  • “Seeing moringa described as the most nutritious of all tropical vegetables, I wondered why there was so much malnutrition in regions where the tree is easily grown and used.”
  • “It’s an historic garden and we’ve kept working it the way it was.”
Posted on September 10, 2008September 11, 2008

Nibbles: Favas, Olives, Insects, Beer, Hallucinogen

  • UK breeders scour ICARDA’s fava beans for better genes. What next? Chianti?
  • Olive cultivation then and now. An archaeologist speaks.
  • Entomophagy.
  • Lager yeast origins.
  • Salvia divinorum: underutilized no longer.

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Fresh Nibbles

    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.

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