Nibbles: Fungi, Cacao, Animal husbandry, China, Africa, Maize, Genebank

by Jeremy on June 26, 2008

Diverse strains + diverse substrates = diverse shiitake.
Chocolate is from Mars. Jeremy comments: “A disease called witches”??? BBC Science reporting strikes again. Get the USDA’s version.
Eldis on a roll this morning: Livestock and climate change in Africa, sustainability of Chinese agriculture, beyond magic bullets in African agriculture.
EurekAlert! tries to catch up: Mexican landraces.
Quality assured potato genebank.

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Host a volunteer school food gardener (in the US).
M.S. Swaminathan’s menu for food security in India. Burp.
Purmina Menon’s menu for food security in India takes us beyond food. Pardon me.
Anyone for edible orchids? Anissa Helou on salep.
Wasp flies in hot pursuit of cassava mealybugs.
Melinda ♡ breastfeeding. The basis for sound nutrition.
Humped conch got bigger as a result of human activities — despite being hunted. Complex.
“Africa to become world’s breadbasket.” Makes a change from being the world’s basketcase.

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Featured Comment: August 29, 2010

Penny has an intriguing idea about black rice:

“Dr Xu says he’s like to see Louisiana farmers growing black rice”

Or, we could just buy it from the countries where it is indigenous to. That way, the farmers who actually developed it would benefit from producing it.

She has reasons, too, good ones.

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Nibbles: Fungi, Cacao, Animal husbandry, China, Africa, Maize, Genebank

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Featured Comment: August 29, 2010

Who’s tweeting Medvedev