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Nibbles: CWR gaps, Genebanks vid, Landrace cuisine, Perennial rice, High-tech evaluation, Egyptian cure, Weird tuber, Aroids news, Tibet transition, Worms & development, Hybrid artemisia, Sea potato, Grape microbes, Seed book, Seychelles parks, Brosimum hype, Kenya & bamboo, Tea & CC, Extinction and CC, Nutrition paradox

CIAT crop wild relatives team announces 3 new papers on gaps in ex situ collections: potato, sweet potato & pigeonpea. Take a break, people, please. And CIAT genebank features in nice video on why we need genebanks. So also the IRRI genebank, which is relevant to the next Nibble. We do joined-up nibbling here. Fine …

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Nibbles: Taste edition

The Stairway to Heaven of barley breeding for whiskey involves thinking about taste a bit more. Taste comes into maize breeding too. Jeremy talks taste with Margot Finn. Oh and there’s his latest newsletter. Farmerama podcasts on cereals in small-scale farming in the UK and beyond. Nothing small-scale about ancient farming in the Nile Valley. …

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Nibbles: CATIE coffee, Cajanus Down Under, Coloured wheat, Rice walk, AnGR in Uganda, Coconut sequestration, Private sector, Hawaiian taro, Going wild sustainably, DATAR, Old yeast, Pharaonic beer, Charley Rick, Liberate Diversity, Cost benefit, Catastrophe now

The CATIE coffee collection gets a really close look. Pigeonpeas for Australia. Coloured wheat for India. Also in India, a rice institute opens its doors. A livestock genebank for Uganda. The coconut for the Caribbean. Why crop-based businesses should pay for crop conservation. Holding my breath… Hawaiians reclaim taro. Breathing again… How to use wild …

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