There’s an important post entitled Vegetables of Mass Destruction over at The Daily Kos, a blog. Important not so much for the content, most of which is familiar, well-meaning and just a tad parochial, but for the location. The Daily Kos is one of the most popular sites in the blogosphere, averaging around half a million visits a day. If just some of those readers go away with a slightly better appreciation of the value of agricultural biodiversity, that will be A Good Thing. So thanks to cookiebear and The Daily Kos for their support.
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Fresh Nibbles: February 15, 2012
: <- click to comment- Policy wonks start to worry about the next US Farm Bill and its effects on poor farmers elsewhere.
- Poles start to worry about their endangered chicks.
- The Youth in Agriculture gives agricultural biodiversity some love on St Valentine’s Day.
- “Can jowar ever replace rice?” Question expecting the answer no? (Jowar is sorghum.)
- Can anyone actually decipher what H.G. Wells wrote to FAO Director Lubin?
- A Memorial Service will be held for Erna Bennett, in English, at 12.30 hrs. on Friday, 9th March at Santa Balbina Church, Viale Guido Baccelli, Rome. It’s near FAO. And no, there’s no link.
- Ants help crop wild relative (among other things).
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
And easy access to the Brainfood Archive.
Featured Comment:
Gregory Vaughan has news for fans of oca, and other Andean roots and tubers.
I just got back from the Parque de la Papa, and it turns out that they are indeed in the midst of a new repatriation of something like 78 accessions of virus-free oca (I think it’s just oca, with no mashua or ulluco yet) from CIP. They have transferred the vitroplants to soil bags that they are raising in a sterile greenhouse.If anyone is interested, I’m working on a project with the UPTC in Tunja, Colombia to investigate and promote our local varieties of these tubers and other native Andean crops.
And yes Gregory, we’re interested.
- February 14, 2012: Aeneas Bonner commented on Erna Bennett: more on this unique person
- February 14, 2012: Mike Jackson commented on The Origins of some basic mistakes about genebanks
- February 13, 2012: fritzi cohen commented on Online Biodiversity Heritage Library has agrobiodiversity too
- February 13, 2012: Gregory Vaughan commented on Not all Andean tubers are potatoes
- February 12, 2012: michael bennett commented on Erna Bennett: more on this unique person
- February 12, 2012: R Hardwick commented on Nibbles: Cover crops, Barley tempeh, Irish biodiversity, Veg research, Landwirtschaft in einer anderen Dimension, Farmers Markets
- February 11, 2012: Kenneth Welles commented on Giant swamp taro analyzed
- February 9, 2012: SLNRao commented on Debating the future of grasspea breeding
- February 8, 2012: Clare Trivedi commented on Nibbles: Mike Jackson blog, Philippines genebank fire, Ancient garden, USA maps, Horse domestication, Gnats, Livestock training, Chocolate, Epigenetics, Indian nutritional security, Kew fund, GM bananas, Reconciling databases
- February 7, 2012: Ola Westengen commented on Cotton doyen passes away
- Collecting Missions Repository gets an upgrade
- NGS and genebanks free for a limited time only
- The Origins of some basic mistakes about genebanks
- Brainfood: Chicken domestication, Financial crisis and conservation, Cucurbit domestication, Tamarind future, Biofortification via bacteria, Cowpea nutritional composition, Roman bottlegourd, Noug, Rice blast diversity, Pearl millet domestication, Cacao genotyping, Organic ag, Marcela, In situ vs ex situ, Artocarpus roots
- Darwin Day 2012: b’lieve I’m fixing to live
- Are you a graduate student interested in organic plant breeding and seed systems?
- New Plant Hardiness Zone Map ready for prime time
- How to solve global hunger and malnutrition
- Online Biodiversity Heritage Library has agrobiodiversity too
- Next-generation sequencing and genebanks: a teaser
- Germplasm documentation is a two way street
- How grafting a plum tree led to an obsession
- Using data to inform nutrition security policy
- The quinoa story: it’s complicated
- Forests at your service: lessons from Kibale
- Breadfruit roundup
- Not all Andean tubers are potatoes
- Yemen spatial data online, sort of
- CGIAR research on Cassava Brown Streak Disease
- Ground-truthing SPAM
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Thanks, agro!
Yes, it is parochial, but I hesitated to go too far — I worry about people getting either overwhelmed by the subject and therefore not doing a thing – or going into the “yea, right” mode.
But it’s such an important issue and I barely even touched the surface.
I am thrilled to learn about this blog! I am a wannabe farmer-ecologist – even botanist and wildlife biologist :=D – and strongly believe the more information we can get out there on this subject, the better.
And I would love to see some series on dKos written by someone who really knows what they’re talking about.
The Vegetables of Mass Destruction series is very popular — I posted that diary simply as a part of the series, but boy, I know the person who started it would love to have someone who really knows their biodiversity write for it.
::hint hint::
Her username at dKos is OrangeClouds115 – do you mind if I point her over here and strongly suggest to her that maybe the subject needs much more in-depth coverage — not to mention, fits perfectly with the series? Would you be willing to write something for the series?