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Brainfood: Sierra Leone rice, Bean breeding, Cacao geographic diversity, Red fleshed apples, Species richness & productivity, African maize diversity, Human expansion, Barley gaps, Wild coffee and CC, Acacia and CC, Genetic erosion

Analysis of genetic diversity in farmers’ rice varieties in Sierra Leone using morphological and AFLP markers. Still a lot of diversity in traditional rice after the war, both among and within landraces, mostly among, organized regionally, and recognized by local names. Simultaneous selection for resistance to five bacterial, fungal, and viral diseases in three Andean …

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Nibbles: Genetic erosion, Rural radio, PhD, Farm workers, Medlars

Drought threatens rare rice varieties. What d’you mean they’re not in genebanks? Has video dimmed the radio’s star? Wanna get a PhD in “climate services for development“? Course you do. Apple harvest fails. Turns out you need a diversity of agricultural labourers too. Medlars. I love it when people treat my familiar stuff as highly …

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Brainfood: Dietary diversity, Diversity and diseases, Soil IK, Insect symbionts, Rhizobia, Wild lettuce, Tree genetic erosion, Pre-domestication barley, Strampelli

Relating dietary diversity and food variety scores to vegetable production and socio-economic status of women in rural Tanzania. Dietary diversity was all too often alarmingly low, and when it was it was associated with seasonal fluctuations in the production and collecting of vegetables. But a more varied diet need not necessarily be healthier, so more …

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