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Nibbles: Community seedbanks, Old ag, ICRAF resources, Pests & diseases, Archaeobotany, Oz seeds, Pakistani camels

The future is community seedbanks. The past was crop mixtures. Among other things: two-year-old reviews of books on 18th century agriculture re-upped. The future is trees. But they need help, hence these resources. Australia looks to native tree seeds for its future. No help needed. There will probably be a crop pandemic in the future. …

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Nibbles: Olive plague, ITPGRFA, Potato, Sweetpotato, Guinea pig, Amazon farming, Unilever, Apomixis, Pathogens, Reindeer,

The Xylella butcher’s bill mounts up. Webinar on the Plant Treaty. The history of the humble: potato, sweetpotato, guinea pig. Agroforestry in the forest. Unilever does C labelling. Biodiversity next? Hacking apomixis in sorghum and cowpea so farmers can save seeds of hybrids. Temperature range and plant host range of fungus and oomycete pathogens change …

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Brainfood: Shiny seeds, Mexican maize, Olive plague, Pulse CWR, Climate change & biodiversity, Soybean diversity, Wild tomato, Brassica evaluation, Horizontal gene transfer, Wild Cajanus, Agroforestry benefits, Fishy diets, Symbiosis, Ancient Amazonia, Animal domestication

Delayed luminescence of seeds: are shining seeds viable? Maybe, but more research needed. Explaining the spatial scale of campesino agriculture in Mexico: Implications for the supply and conservation of native maize. Maize is not just for subsistence; never has been. Impact of Xylella fastidiosa subspecies pauca in European olives. Fancy maths says olives are doomed. …

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Brainfood: Creole cattle, Wattle diversity, Olive death, Cucurbit diversity, Child nutrition, Seed systems, N efficiency, Black Sigatoka, Ag oils, Sharing double, Cow sharing, Horse phenotyping, Nutrients & CC

The genetic ancestry of American Creole cattle inferred from uniparental and autosomal genetic markers. Out of Africa… Tracing the genetic origin of two Acacia mearnsii seed orchards in South Africa. For one of the orchards, the origin is unknown, but it’s distinct to all the other, known provenances. Genetic Characterization of Apulian Olive Germplasm as …

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Nibbles: Transformation, Restoration, Renumeration, Validation, Mensuration, Celebration, Visualization, Diversification, Fructification, Information, Fermentation, Sustentation, Association, Migration, Transformation, Microconservation

Lawrence Haddad on how to start transforming the food system. Here’s an idea: CIMMYT genebank recognized for restoring agricultural diversity in Guatemala. And another. Cash transfers are better than more conventional interventions for malnutrition, but they have to be real money. But, of course, they don’t always work. That’s one of many development myths listed …

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