Nibbles: Rice domestication, H5N1, Fisheries, Crop maps, Grafting, Livestock video, Perennial conference, Goat genetic patterns, Satellites, Large seeds, W4RA

by Luigi on November 16, 2009

Dorian Fuller rounds up rice domestication latest.
Deconstructing the persistence of H5N1.
Artisanal fisheries and climate change don’t mix. No-take reserves, anyone?
Mo’ better crop mapping.
Multi-variety fruit trees for sale. Perfect Christmas gift.
For your consideration: video on livestock science.
First International Perennial Grain Breeding Workshop. Tell us about it, please!
History of goat pastoralism. The revenge of geography.
SciDev on remote sensing for drought and other disasters. IWMI presumably knows all about that.
Boffins find seed size gene. Oregon State University Seed Laboratory doesn’t care.
Web Alliance for Re-greening Africa. New one on me.

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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: Rice domestication, H5N1, Fisheries, Crop maps, Grafting, Livestock video, Perennial conference, Goat genetic patterns, Satellites, Large seeds, W4RA

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Who’s tweeting Medvedev