AgroBioDiverse
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Luigi Guarino & Jeremy Cherfas on crops, livestock, bugs, food, drink... See also Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog ☕️🍺🍠🍌🥑🍆🌶️🌽 🌻🍏 Views our own
Rome & Bonn, also Nairobi
Joined April 2008
Cock and bull stories of crop diversity – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
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In his latest Eat This Newsletter, Jeremy deconstructs a paper on Tiggiano and Polignano heriloom carrots... Culturally, each landrace is associated with a local patron saint, St Vitus in Polignano...
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RT @AgriExperts: Chemotaxonomy, an Efficient Tool for Medicinal Plant Identification. #chemotaxonomy.#metabolites #texonomy.#artificialinte….
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RT @CropTrust: Finger millet has fed communities in Africa & India for centuries - and it's making a comeback! .✅ Gluten-free.🔥 Drought & h….
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RT @LConservancy: Don’t miss our podcast, "Heritage Horses in History," launching on July 29. We’ll discuss the importance of these breeds….
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Nibbles: COUSIN project, Breeding chat, Aardaker, Alternative beans, Grain amaranth, Iraqi seeds, Genebanks in peril – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
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The COUSIN project aims to conserve (trans situ, no less) and use crop wild relatives in Europe. That "use" part can be tough. But that doesn't stop the fine people at Aardaia. At least where...
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RT @VenetiaJane: The sweet pea, native to Sicily, was first described in 1697 by Father Franciscus Cupani. A favourite of Queen Alexandra,….
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RT @IISD_ENB: As the @planttreaty Working Group met for its final negotiations before the Governing Body in November 2025, many delegates u….
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RT @philip_ciwf: How the global trade in donkey skins threatens the lives of women and girls @guardian .“Despite its scale, this cruel trad….
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Letter: This cruel, largely unregulated industry in the global south undermines UN goals of gender equality and poverty reduction, writes Marianne Steele of The Donkey Sanctuary
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RT @FAOKnowledge: Agricultural biodiversity is vital for coping with a changing climate and securing our future of food. 🥕🍊🍎🍅🍒🥔. 5️⃣ benef….
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Brainfood: Focus on in situ/on farm this week. Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog . #agrobiodiversity #genebanks #biodiversity #plantbreeding #conservation.
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EcoregionsTreeFinder—A Global Dataset Documenting the Abundance of Observations of > 45,000 Tree Species in 828 Terrestrial Ecoregions. The right native tree for your ecoregion of choice. Which,...
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RT @SIANIAgri: In line with 2025’s UN‑designated International Year of Cooperatives, and this year’s #CoopsDay theme, we recognise cooperat….
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RT @artinsociety: 17C Flemish artist Jacob van Hulsdonck was prominent in the development of still-lifes. These fruits in a Chinese porcela….
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Always fun when podcasters get thoroughly schooled by their guest 😀.
Why was the Seven Years War the first truly global war? . @DalrympleWill and @tweeter_anita are joined by Maya Jasanoff to discuss how the French and Indian War affected Canada. Listen NOW wherever you get your podcasts.
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RT @planttreaty: How does national implementation of the @planttreaty contribute to achieving #KMGBF Targets? 🌱. From conservation to benef….
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RT @bgci: The call for applications for the Global Seed Conservation Grants via BGCI's Global Botanic Garden Fund (GBGF) has been extended….
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RT @CGIAR: 🌍With leadership from @BiovIntCIAT_eng, the Periodic Table of Food Initiative is improving the quality, consistency, and accessi….
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To build healthier food systems, we need better food data. A new research shows where the gaps are—and how innovations like PTFI are helping to close them. In today’s world, we hear a lot about what...
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In War Zones, a Race to Save Key Seeds Needed to Feed the World - Yale e360
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In conflict areas from Ukraine to Palestine, storage facilities holding seeds vital for future plant breeding are being lost. Scientists are rushing to send some remaining seeds to a “doomsday” vault...
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