- Palestinian rooftop gardens. Including crucifers, no doubt.
- Brits support work with rice and wheat wild relatives. Among other things. They’ll probably use some of these genomics things.
- Aussies support sweet potatoes. HarvestPlus rejoices.
- That new Australian genebank. Will it have any sweet potatoes?
- The agricultural legacy of Thomas Jefferson. It doesn’t say here, but I bet he was into sweet potato.
- Hawaiian menus. What, no sweet potato?
- Forget biotech, the road to sexy agriculture is via the supermarket. Where you can buy sweet potato. Maybe even of the organic persuasion.
- Or maybe better tree seeds. Even in the Nordic countries. Or the US. Is cacao a tree?
- Plans for special edition of Sustainability on neglected crops. Like amaranth?
- Geographic targeting reaches roots/tubers. Using this newfangled atlas? Or no?
- Treaty and Consortium love-in filmed. Thanks for sharing. It’s all part of this CGIAR perestroika thing, no doubt.
- What that Kew coffee extinction paper really said.
- Protected areas need work. Especially for coffee (see above).
- Yeah but protected areas is not the only way to go, and Europe now has a bunch of biodiversity indicators for farmland. I guess it’s all part of some big plan.
- Policy brief on sustainable use of PGR. Or, as we used to call it, on farm conservation.
- Which you can kind of see happening here.
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, animals, wild relatives ...
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Fresh Nibbles: June 20, 2013
<- click to comment- Dog domestication explained. In a bunch of different, mutually incompatible ways, but what the hell.
- But don’t worry about that, revel in this ancient beer infographic. Ancient beer, not ancient infographic. And more: can never have enough about ancient beer.
- And speaking of ancient foodstuffs, how about bread? Jeremy unavailable for comment.
- Bread too mainstream? Why not support breadfruit planting for food security? You can. But make sure you tell them to plant lots of different varieties.
- Or how about the Chilean plum yew tree, for that matter.
- Breadfruit and Chilean plum yew tree not mainstream enough? FAO not losing faith with good old quinoa. Oh no siree. There’s even a series of tasting events here this week.
- You want more nutrition, I’ve got more nutrition: here’s how to improve nutrition through agriculture in 10 easy steps, and here’s how we’re doing in monitoring how well we’re doing in improving nutrition through agriculture.
- Which is comprehensively ignored by USAID’s new Biodiversity Policy. Agriculture, that is. USAID handles support to the CGIAR, so they should know about agrobiodiversity and its conservation. Not really good enough. But hey, you can send in your comments.
- Nice pics of how people drink tea around the world. Could do with some myself just now actually, after that little lot…
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
And easy access to the Brainfood Archive.
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Featured Comment June 10, 2013
Mary Winfree Found our post “Churros and peaches in the Canyon de Chelly” useful:
My back yard holds a sacred place and cemetery, we found it when a neighbor tried to build a road right up to my back door and the bones came up. We brought in Cadaver dogs who revealed a whole cemetery. It was a blessing in disguise because when we went to replant the bones of my little Indian Grandmother, there were more bones from the same tribe, that needed a home. They had been buried and then disturbed by a big hiway, and no place had been found for them. Now they will join the ones in my yard. We are holding a homecoming party for them. Songs both sad and happy, a BBQ and where they are replanted they are planting peach trees – now I know what that means…
We’re glad we were able to help a little.
Updates … delivered
- Dag Endresen: Simple accession numbers (catalog numbers) are good for talking about accessions with collaborators that are aware of the context. If ...
- Luigi Guarino: Why can't all samples get stable identifiers?
- Ruaraidh: Stable identifiers for accessions? Beware - these are living collections, not like herbarium specimens. Genebank managers do their best to ...
- Dag Endresen: Full support for making the dream of stable and persistent identifiers come true -- now. Stable URLs created from the ...
- Luigi Guarino: It's right HERE.
- Norman: I am at the meeting on the Atlas in Canberra right now. This atlas and the analysis tools with 400+ ...
- Cédric Jeanneret: Perhaps Luigi knows :) Looking at the Mapping & Analysis tool, I feel the Atlas is overstepping its raison d'être: ...
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More on amaranth research at Africa University in Zimbabwe.
And sweet potato (since it is le thème du jour).