- ILRI video on helping herders with that climate change thing.
- Nutritional composition of Strawberry tree fruits.
- The genetic history of the yak.
- Chinese food archaeology: noodles and fruits.
- Colonial food in early America.
Nibbles: Buckwheat, Korea, Zimbabwean beer, Jeopardy
- Forest biodiversity boosts buckwheat harvest.
- Urban agriculture in Korea. Could it be prettier?
- Richer Zimbabwean drinkers abandon sorghum beer. Because it tastes poor, or because it feels poor?
- Biodiversity on TV. Read this, watch the video, and weep.
Pike Street Market
“Local” and “exotic” agrobiodiversity on show at Seattle’s Pike Street Market.
Nibbles: Livestock methane, Afromontane medicinal tree, Afromontane bananas, Acacia
- How to get livestock to burp less? Spice their food.
- Prunus africana connections between E and W Africa.
- And more from the E African highlands: this time about bananas and drought.
- Making money out of gum arabic in Mauritania.
Biofortified’s take on the biofortification conference
Over at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog, Jeremy has been critical of information coming out of the First Global Conference on Biofortification. He wonders if the organizers and attendees were/are too focused on a techno-fix rather than on diverse diets as a solution. This being a conference on biofortification, we talked about biofortification a lot, and it could be argued that biofortification is a techno-fix, whether by breeding or biotechnology.
Ah, but you just know there’s a “however” coming up, don’t you. Thanks to Anastasia for a great summary of the recent biofortification jamboree.