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Nibbles: Tea, Commodity dependence, Wild pigs, Organic ag, Fungus

Tea to get quality standards, geographic indications. Luigi’s mother-in-law unavailable for comment, but would probably say everybody already knows her tea is high quality and where it comes from. And speaking of Africa and commodities… Pygmy hog saved from extinction. Pocket pigs deny involvement. Big write-up of Ryton Organic Garden. Jeremy bound to comment. Perigord …

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Nibbles: IPRs, chicory, pigs

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher optimistic that farmers can avoid becoming “serfs of a different kind”. Three chicory museums? Who knew? Want to know more about chicory? Just when you thought it was safe, Return of the Pocket Pigs (with added photographic goodness).

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Nibbles: Barley genetics, CCAFS, VIR, Gardens of Adonis, Traditional Knowledge, Safety duplication, Wild pig,

10MB worth of proceedings of the Barley Genetics Symposium from ICARDA. So, what will this CCAFS do anyway? Russia offers VIR to the world. Again. Adonis, Sappho and lettuce, all in one post. Modern science needs traditional knowledge. And a fish needs a bicycle. Global Crop Diversity Trust and Latin American genebanks team up to …

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