Nutrition – Page 304 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

November 23, 2007

Everybody loves quinoa

CABI on Bioversity on quinoa.

November 15, 2007

Breadfruit proceedings

Great news from Diane Ragone. The proceedings of the I International Symposium on Breadfruit Research and Development are out!

November 14, 2007November 13, 2007

Phytochemicals in yams

Yoruba twins due to yams?

November 13, 2007

Caribbean food and health

Lubin finds nutritional info on Caribbean foods.

November 13, 2007November 13, 2007

Garlic; cooking and diversity

How to cook garlic. Oh, and also how to identify duplicates in garlic germplasm collections by DNA fingerprinting.

1. Modelling adoption of biofortified crops is no substitute for empirical field surveys. Kind of obvious, but I guess needed saying.
2. Kenyans may not need biofortified crops, though. Assuming they are actually eating their traditional vegetables.
3. There’s a whole genebank for Africa’s vegetables.
4. Saba senegalensis is also naturally biofortified.
5. The High Atlas Foundation is also on a fruit tree mission
6. Is the date palm the most important fruit tree in the world, though?
7. I wonder what will happen to USDA’s fruit tree collections.
Published on August 19, 2025