Tourism – Page 140 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

February 4, 2008

Talking Plants

NPR’s Talking Plants blogger is in the Amazon.

November 22, 2007

Pioneer agriculture

Photos of Frontier Culture Museum, including agrobiodiversity.

November 19, 2007November 19, 2007

Many trees grow in Brooklyn

Crop wild relatives etc. in Prospect Park. Betty Smith unavailable for comment.

November 16, 2007March 31, 2008

Mongolian megafish

Mongolians protect giant trout by not eating it. More for everybody else, I guess.

November 13, 2007

Dryland, Livestock/Wildlife Environment Interface Project

Fatter livestock, more wild animals, honey. The elusive win-win-win?

1. Prof. KC Bansal, who used to run the Indian national genebank, gets a much-deserved UNESCO honour.
2. Friend-of-the-blog Dr Mike Jackson on running a rice genebank. UNESCO honour for him too?
3. Spain’s strawberry genebank gets its 15 minutes.
4. University and Native American nation collaborate on regenerating heritage corn varieties.
5. The pros and cons of heritage varieties, according to an American farmer.
6. Did the ancient Romans have heritage apples?
7. Beautifully written piece on the use of heritage varieties — and much else besides — in breeding hazelnuts in the US. If you only read one of these Nibbles, read this one.
8. Old shipwrecked rye seeds may end up in whiskey. Best place for them.
9. Old Serbian grapevine herbarium samples should stay right where they are.
10. Old horses most certainly did not stay where they were. But where was that exactly?
11. Not sure where old bottled fruit from Washington’s estate will end up. The DNA lab maybe, like those Serbian grapevines?
12. There’s going to be a Worldwide Day of Botanical Art on May 18, 2025. Rejoice.
13. Decolonizing food insecurity in West Africa.
Published on January 17, 2025