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Nibbles: Cropscapes, Ecuador cacao, Nigerian yams, Lima bean show, Mesopotamian cooking, Nepal seed banks, RNA integrity, China genebanks, Cryo comics, Greening

Agricultural Biodiversity

The community seed banks of Nepal have a new website. A new project is testing RNA integrity number (RIN) as a metric of seed aging for a bunch of rare wild plants. One day maybe community seed banks will be using it. China has inventoried its agricultural germplasm. As in Mesopotamian recipe books , for example.

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Nibbles: IUCN report, Land Institute, Climate smart beer, BioLeft seeds, Cryo coral

Agricultural Biodiversity

Big IUCN report says that biodiversity and agriculture are in conflict, they don’t really need to be, but it’s really complicated for them not to be. If only we incorporated more sustainable agriculture in education , for example, eh? If only improved seeds were open source , for example, eh? Wait, what?

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Nibbles: SeedLinked, Heritage Seed Library, HarvestPlus, Enset, EBI, Saharan/Sahelian flora, Pollen, Food & climate, Food prices, Moonraker, Svalbard eats, Devex does seeds, CGRFA ABS survey

Agricultural Biodiversity

SeedLinked : an app to source cool vegetable seeds. Want to become a variety champion for the Heritage Seed Library? Maybe there’s a nice view of the Seed Vault though? The latest Devex newsletter has lots of stuff on food prices and prizes and seed vaults. Where’s the app though?

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Nibbles: Fonio beer, ICRISAT seed kits, Dark Emu, China potatoes, 3D genebank, Bioculture, Microbiome genebank, Nutrition, Michigan kiwi

Agricultural Biodiversity

ICRISAT providing Niger and Chad with sorghum and pearl millet seed kits. How the private sector can help with a more nutrition-sensitive agriculture. You can make beer from fonio. Fonio next? No, Echinochloa turneriana next. In Australia. I love the Dark Emu Hypothesis , and not least for its name. I’d love to see the potatoes.

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Coalition Letter on President’s Export Council’s Agricultural Trade Proposal

NASDA

food and agriculture community to ask you to support this important President Export Council (PEC) proposal to bolster American agriculture’s global competitive standing around the world. food and agriculture, eliminate unwarranted non-tariff barriers, and reinforce global food security. agricultural production.

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Nibbles: Svalbard Global Seed Vault, CePaCT genebank, CIAT genebank, Australia rice genebank, Bangladesh genebank, Maize mutants garden, Inoculants genebank, Millets community seedbank, Payments for Agrobiodiversity Conservation Services, Triadic Comparison of Technology Options, Crop diversity, Intercropping, Agroforestry, Diet diversity, World economy, Sustainable food

Agricultural Biodiversity

Never thought I’d see the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Psychology Today , yet here we are. The Pacific’s regional genebank is set for more work on lesser-known crops. Too bad most of them won’t be able to go to Svalbard. How to make a genebank beautiful as well as sustainable. Australia has a rice genebank. For some reason.

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Brainfood: Croplands, Satellite phenotyping, Farm size, Bt double, Scaling up, Opinion leaders, Gendered knowledge, OFSP, Ethiopia sorghum diversity, Banana bunchy top, Climate change & pathogens, Bean pathogens, Mixtures, Rewards

Agricultural Biodiversity

Just agricultural science: The green revolution, biotechnologies, and marginalized farmers in Africa. Questioning the role of “opinion leaders” in agricultural programs. Assessment of seed system interventions for biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) in Malawi. Thanks, satellites. Male and stale?