Nibbles: Quince, Coffee, Chocolate, Nutrition, Africa

by Jeremy on November 12, 2009

Speaking of Cinderella fruits, quince gets a good going over.
Coffee prices and more — from the market marker’s mouth. h/t cas-ip.
Some chocolate might help distressed coffee growers.
IFPRI milking its Millions Fed. We highlight Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition and The mungbean transformation diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition.
China gets cracking in Mozambique. Maybe they’ll be waking up exhausted seeds.

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Higher maize yields? Plant cover crops between the rows.
Barley tempeh! My kind of food exploration.
Danny Hunter impresses Irish Times with need to conserve biodiversity.
UK devotes millions to research for “bigger yields of better quality fruits and vegetables”.
Germans embrace high-tech urban agriculture — cautiously.
Put farmers’ markets near medical centres for added benefits. What happens when everyone’s so healthy they don’t need the doctor?

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Featured Comment: February 9, 2012

Clare Trivedi reassures Dave Wood on Kew’s ABS policy:

I know it may be a little buried in the Kew website but we have a very well-established Policy on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing which covers all aspects of acquisition, use and supply of plant material.

And to avoid you digging around for it, Dave, here it is.

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