Nibbles: Nuts, Ug99, Mexican pollinator project, Maize in Africa, Cerrado fruit

Fresh Nibbles: February 8, 2012 : <- click to comment

• The annual Wageningen agrobiodiversity conservation course is in India this year. Hannes says it’s really good.
• AVRDC’s veggie seed kits are a hit in Orissa.
• CIMMYT swimming in data. Waving, not drowning.
• IRRI not doing badly either. But “quantitative train loci” is a new one on me.
• Australia thinking about introducing elephants. Yeah because that sort of thing has been such a success in the past.
• Well, actually, with sheep, I suppose it has, in a way. And the genetics says breeders have a lot of diversity to play with still.
• Your mama is a llama.
• The Island of Dogs has crop wild relatives. No, not the one in London.
• Cuba goes for new urban crops. And not for the first time, Shirley. But what about the old ones?
• Quick, duck! This piece has been rather a hit for me over on Facebook.
• VII International Symposium on Artichoke, Cardoon and Their Wild Relatives: The (Very Expensive) Book.
• Food sovereignty “started in New England”. Huh? And proponents “want to eat and sell the food they grow free from interference from state and federal regulators”. Huh?

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