Nibbles: Fungi, Early warming, Food banks, High concept, Russia, Wine, Apples, China, Sustainable ag

by Luigi on September 30, 2008

Vesicular arbuscular mychorriza help improve fallows.
Google.org has a Predict and Prevent Initiative to catch outbreaks of human diseases before they happen. Would be nice to have something similar for threats of erosion of agrobiodiversity.
Niger’s soudure food banks: could they act as village-level genebanks?
You might call it meta-farmingâ€”the quasi-philosophical approach to raising crops and livestock that proceeds not from necessity or commercial aims but a concept.
Farming in Russia: a slide show with narration.
Army worm wine. WTF? Via. (They’re caterpillars.)
A Kazak apple a day keeps the blue mold away.
Neolithic China: not just rice.
The oldest continuous cotton experiment in the world.

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World Bank runs competition to develop climate change app. CCAFS surrenders.
ICRISAT launches Center of Excellence on Climate Change Research for Plant Protection. CCAFS surrenders.
Britain’s National Fruit Collection gets grafted.
COGENT looks for validation.
Everybody loves timelapse.
A seed catalogue round-up.
“True grits“. Worthy, of course, but basically I love the title.
Not sure why news of a website for the Biofortification Conference held in November 2010 just popped up, but it did.
Know any good, young, committed, practical, gung-ho, field-tempered, agricultural Norman Borlaug clones? The World Food Prize wants to hear from you.
The Millennium Seed Bank has a blog. Welcome, seed-dudes!

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Featured Comment: February 11, 2012

SLNRao regrets the mistakes of the past, but sees a bright future ahead for grasspea, and its relatives:

Looking at the likely benefits of Homoarginine on the cardiovasculature and emerging concepts on ODAP itself I am of the firm belief that grass pea in coming years will turn into a rich man’s pulse.

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