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Nibbles: Food Deserts, Garlics, Communication, Bee breeding, Millets, Sweet potatoes, Visualizing herbaria, Medieval beer

The Economist discovers food deserts. Money quote: “some Americans simply do not care to eat a balanced diet, while others, increasingly, cannot afford to”. William Woys Weaver on garlics, and America, and garlic in America. Agricultural Communication for Development conference. Sure. But 12 days long? Breeding a better bee. And why not? Kenya Agricultural research …

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Feria del Elote

Untitled, a photo by CIMMYT on Flickr. From CIMMYT’s Flickr feed: Carts selling tacos made with maize tortillas (traditional Mexican flatbreads) in Jala, Nayarit, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, during the town’s annual two-week Feria del Elote, or maize ear festival. Tortillas are a staple food in Mexico, and are commonly filled to make …

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Nibbles: CBD COP, Biofortification, Foodie potatoes, Dates date, Reintroductions, Quercus, Nomenclature, Maize, P, Agroforestry, Weeds, VIR, Lactose intolerance, Yersinia

Bioversity DG “jubilant” at Nagoya Protocol. A video plug for the biofortification conference. Native potatoes on foodie agenda. A date palm festival. In the US. The success of species introductions. Italian acorn cakes deconstructed. I’m told the people able to recognize these sweet acorns are few and old. Calling times on biological names. Whoa! Saving …

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Nibbles: Kew, Diversity, Allanblackia and Acacia, Pulses, GIS, Poverty, Early morning flowering, Agrobiodiversity and climate change, Breeding, Genebanks, Perenniality, Blogs, AGRA, Potato diversity, Witchweed, Mexican potatoes, Salvia, Old Sicilian chestnut, Tropical maize

Guardian has whole piece on the importance on Kew’s collections without once mentioning Millennium Seed Bank. Anyway, the Paris herbarium is not so bad either, though they are no match for the Kew press machine. Hybridization is good for plant diversity. Well, yeah. What am I missing here? Oh and here’s more about things that …

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Nibbles: Eggplant, Cactus domestication, Berries, Conservation, Drought, Conference, Chaffey, Rice relative, Cornus, Adansonia, Pavlovsk, Genebanks, Dams

How can you do Eggplant’s Rich History and not wonder why this generally huge, generally purple thing is called an eggplant? Domestication of the Gray Ghost Organ Pipe cactus; exceedingly complex. Oh and there’s a cool photo here. How berries protect the brain from age-related malfunction. Are you listening, Dmitry? Protect medicinal plants, says letter-writer. …

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