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Fresh Nibbles: February 13, 2012
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- Today’s silver bullet is an Australian grasspea variety. Actually the first Australian grasspea variety.
- Our friend Nik goes to town on IRRI’s wild relatives.
- How to breed sweet potatoes. The saga continues.
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
- ILRI uses the particular to make points about the general. Clever.
- Californian fine-foraging.
- Angelenos learn about Vavilov’s Principle.
- A forester argues for forests in the Rio+20 process. Mandy Rice-Davies applies.
- Tanzanian Regional Commissioner urges farmers to sow sorghum and millet. If necessary, they can learn from …
- Farmers in Tamil Nadu, who helped scientists learn lots more about local millets, and got a publication into the bargain.
- Who’s doing what in Kenya in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Genebank scrapes in, though not by name, under KARI.
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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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- 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
- February 7, 2012: Jacob commented on Nibbles: Musa taxonomy kerfuffle, Vouchers, Foodies, Aroid roundup, MAS is ok, Sierra Leone conservation
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- February 6, 2012: Dave Wood commented on Consolidation in the seed industry
- 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
- Cotton doyen passes away
- Kermit sings the malnutrition blues
- Consolidation in the seed industry
- Brainfood: Falcons, Wild soybean squared, Horse domestication
- 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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The band did too.
Ian Anderson had (has?) a huge salmon farm processing business, and “[h]is hobbies include the growing of many varieties of hot chile peppers“.
Strip fields had to do something with the long plough-teams medieval farmers used. My professor told me some years ago that the curved form of these fields was explained by close observations of actual plowing practice (by Orwin and Orwin, The Open Fields, 1938).
I googled a bit and found this article, which explains the technical details. Surprisingly the article also points out the link between the strip fields and agrobiodiversity. The long plough-teams were needed because the draught animals were small. Later stronger breeds from the Low Countries were introduced and the strip fields became less necessary.
About the region where strip fields occur that are shown in the video this same article says this:
Does this means that the walled landscapes shown in the video are not medieval at all? On the other hand, the article shows a map of Taddington (very near Chelmorton, the area shown in the video) and says fields have the typical form. I don’t find the curves very pronounced, I must say.
Anyway, fascinating stuff and beautiful landscapes.
I showed this video to my class today. It is a split-level (seniors and graduate students) course entitled ‘Principles & Practices of Wildlife Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes.’ Thanks for posting. If there are more agriculture videos where you found this one, I would appreciate knowing about them.