Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
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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Brazil’s flora moves online. And its agriculture into its favelas. Taxonomy 101. Wish the people who wrote this press release on “canary seed” had taken a taxonomy course. It’s Phalaris canariensis, it turns out. African breeders to be trained at UCDavis. Ok, but what about WACCI? What’s going on? Cornell-Davis smackdown? Further proof, if any …
Cultivate medicinal trees to save them. Oh, and provide medicines. Or you could harvest them sustainably from sacred forests? Reef fished out? Aquaculture to the rescue. Sounds a bit like the aquatic equivalent of the above, no? But do they have sea cucumbers and their poop in those inland ponds? Growing diverse crops good for …
The USDA is plugging its Atlas of Crop Wild Relatives in Guatemala. So we’ll plug our post about it from November 2011. And ask again: where’s Paraguay? The Social Life of Beans in Burundi is a tour-de-force. I can never get enough of informal seed systems, especially from people who live in them. And a …
For UK horticulturalists in need of cash. Wonder if that includes the rosemary collection. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t include AVRDC. Who would no doubt agree with Mark Lynas that “No-one disputes that a balanced and nutritionally-adequate diet is the best long-term solution to vitamin A deficiency and malnutrition in general.” And be as puzzled …