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Nibbles: Colombian chocolate, Urban ag, Subaks, GM debate, Taxonomy online, Genebank tools online, BBC on Kew, Australian seed bank, Cedar of Lebanon, Pizza philosophy, Feijoada

Move over Juan Valdez. Cacao farmers want to emulate a marketing icon. Urban agriculture not all it’s cracked up to be. Living up to that urban ag icon, Cuba, is hard. Bali’s iconic, traditional subaks are a complex adaptive system, and much better than modern rice farming alternatives. Makes you wonder why they need protecting, …

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Nibbles: Cryo primer, Ag development paradigms smackdown, Edible book, Roots & tubers conference, Deep taxonomy, WWF ag investment report, Forecasting rape disease, Amaranth, Competition

Science 2.0 Conservation 101 #fail. It’s the roads, stupid. Well, not only. Cowen cowed. Big book on the edible plants of Central America online. Big root and tuber meet gets off the ground in Nigeria with pean for cassava. How to link taxonomic names to everything Responsible investment in agriculture. Mitt Romney alerted. Video on …

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Beyond the staples

I haven’t been following the Millennium Villages literature — scientific and popular — quite as assiduously as I should, but what I have read does seem to focus quite strongly on the staple crops. No doubt a sustainable increase in the production of staples is necessary to combat hunger in Africa. But is it sufficient? …

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Nibbles: Allanblackia domestication, Rampion census, Mali reforestation, Indian sacred groves, Oysters, Seaweeds, Breeding organics, EMBRAPA, Fisheries bycatch, Writing NUS proposals, Nutrition mag, Biofortification

Boffins trying to domesticate Allanblackia for its oil. Phyteuma spicatum must be saved, British folklore depends on it. How about domesticating it? Farmers replanting forest in inland Niger delta. Sort of domesticating the forest, you mean? And here’s another domesticated forest, this time in Kerala. Are oysters domesticated? And seaweeds? Lots of uses for seaweeds, …

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