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Nibbles: Earthworms, Artisanal fishing, Urban Ag, Bees, Geeks

Giant spitting earthworms need love too. “…local subsidies to artisanal fisheries have also proved to contribute to the disappearance of species, as in the case of Senegal.” Oh, come on, gimme a break! Urban Agriculture Magazine wants your contributions on “Urban Nutrient Management“. via CFtF. Inbred bumblebees less successful. What do you geek? Interesting campaign. …

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Nibbles: Communication, Chicken mutations, Endophytes, Earthworms

DFID-supported collection of stories showing how information about new ways of doing things is communicated to rural people in developing countries includes some agrobiodiversity stuff. The genetic nature of the Pea-comb phenotype in chickens. Entomopathogenic fungus can become an endophyte in sorghum and confer protection from stem borer. Ain’t agrobiodiversity grand? Different earthworm species have …

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Nibbles: Assisted migration, Livestock and ecosystems, Agrobiodiversity tourism, Earthworms, Fish, Cucurbits

Assisted location is now managed relocation. So that’s alright then. Transhumance is good for ecosystem. Oh, and bison too. Geotourism in Yellowstone has a website. Can agroecotourism be far behind? I’m afraid so. No relationship between parasite load and genetic diversity in earthworms. Alas. “The naming of fish is a nightmare. They have more aliases …

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Nibbles: Adaptation, Vegetables, Wood, Allotment, Earthworms, Salmon, Bees, Malaria, Potatoes, Apples

ICRISAT: “The impact of climate change on the yields under low input agriculture is likely to be minimal as other factors will continue to provide the overriding constraints to crop growth and yield.” So that’s all right then. Book and CD-ROM on African indigenous veggies. CD-ROM of wood characteristics. The agrobiodiversity of “…the oldest and …

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Nibbles: Journal, Biofuel source, Old seeds, Bees, Aquaculture, Millennium Seed Bank, Pests, Earthworms, Jellyfish, Cuba, Japan, Kerala, Queensland, Goats, Cacao, Savanna, Global maps, Nepal

New Gene Conservation is out. Put out more flags. Biofuel from coffee grounds? Right. Hope the stuff was shade-grown, anyway. Is a lupin or date palm seed the oldest ever found? Let the controversy rage. Bees scare caterpillars as well as pollinating plants. Thankfully, Europe is on the job, colony-collapse-wise. Trouble for Scottish farmed salmon. …

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