Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Sensors for volatile organic compounds will detect crop diseases for ya. Then a drone comes in and zaps them? Breeding better bees. “So why not simply replace the traditional variety with Dhanshakti?” Answers on a postcard, please. Bringing back the passenger pigeon. The impact of land rights around the world. Including on conservation of agricultural …
Liberation: Proof, if proof were needed, that what you really need to snaffle EU funding is an acronym. Not just yields but nutritional value of staple crop threatened by climate change. Bee crisis still bad news for agriculture. Bee crisis still good news for researchers.
The European encounter with the potato. A Google Earth tour by Jorge L. Alonso, and really rather fun. In Spanish. The European encounter with virtual germplasm collections. AEGIS takes another step. The European encounter with the honeybee. Bad news for the latter. The European encounter with wheat. Its promiscuity will save us. Wheat’s, that is, …
Colony collapse disorder. It’s still complicated. The Botanist in the Kitchen is at it again, with an in-depth treatment of okra, slime and chocolate. But seriously, why don’t Anglo-Saxons eat equids? It’s all down to religion. Nigeria embraces UNCTAD report that warns against monoculture. An interactive map of crop wild relatives. If it showed barley …
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US listeners get an earful of the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation. And can read all about the history of one of the great heirloom tomatoes, Cherokee Purple. You can’t have too many urban beekeepers, or can you …? Be warned, the full article is behind a paywall. Floridian bottarga “tastes cleaner than the …
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