Will this work, I wonder
Blue-ribbon oca- Urban farmers making real money, in London and Moffat.
- Lots, lots more on the archaeology of rice, from Dorian Fuller.
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Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Will this work, I wonder
Very nice paper by Dorian Fuller on rice – that I’ll read carefully this evening. A multi-disciplinary approach like this would be also welcomed for Africa’s indigenous rice(s).
Indeed. Rice presents a fascinating opportunity to study parallel evolution in crop diversity, crop ecology and cultural traditions with the comparison of African O. glaberrima and and Asian O. sativa. Sadly, at present the archaeobotany of most West African countries is a complete blank, and archaeobotany in Africa needs more researchers, but some exciting finds are coming out (see my blog for some recent examples: http://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2012/01/african-archaeobotany-2011.html). Asian rice has also attracted more historical linguistic research and discussion. Unravelling the cultural histories of African rice remains a good challenge to get to work on!