Nibbles: Tofu, Pluon, Community gardens, Indian drought, Trees, Chicks, rare breeds

by Luigi on August 17, 2009

Tofu, anyone?
Plumcot, anyone?
Guerrilla gardening, everyone!
Green Revolution breadbasket drying up. ICRISAT has the answer. Well, sort of.
BBC has a different answer. Trees can keep people alive in times of drought.
More semi-naked chicks, this time in South Africa.
Naked or otherwise, eat them to save them, with the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.

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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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