Nibbles: Chillies, Catfish, Blight, Beef, Svalbard, Biofortification, Agriculture and health book, Ahipa, GBIF, Pacific grape and nuts, Cassava and marriage, Amazon, Lost genebanks, Vietnamese food, Yoghurt

Another use for chillies: keeping errant apes away.
Catfish are the new tilapia.
New fungicide-resistant strain of potato late blight found in UK. (How do they name these things?)
The chickenization of the US beef industry, on NPR. Salutary.
The Seed Warrior of Svalbard gets over-exposed.
What HarvestPlus is doing on each of its crops, in a handy brochure. And more on the same subject but a different crop from Bill Gates himself.
But that’s just one aspect of the relationship between agriculture and nutrition/health. Right? Right.
You also need dietary diversification, right? Right.
What’s that you say? Biodiversity databasing need not be hellish?
Danny waxes nostalgic about Wallis and Futuna grapes. He and I also met a few nuts in the Pacific in our time. Grape-nuts. Geddit?
Latest Plant Cuttings includes big piece on cassava.
And you can put that in an ecological context.
Do you have a forgotten germplasm collection?
Vietnam gets its first EU Geographic Indication. Can’t help thinking it need not have bothered.
Greek yoghurt, on the other hand…