Nibbles: Fossil biodiversity, Culture & health, Cicer drought experiment, Endangered fish, Wheat hydridization, Food aid, Ag trade double, Sustainable diets, Fermentation book

The Global Fossil Record. Visualized. Not agricultural, but couldn’t resist it.
Malnutrition? It’s the culture, stupid.
Check out the world’s largest chickpea drought trial.
Overfishing the Amazon.
Ah, so that’s how wheat did it!
Food aid can support sustainable livelihoods too.
Soon, most crop production will go to feed China’s pigs. And you’ll be able to follow that on FAOStat’s interactive thingie on agricultural tradeflows.
But it can’t possibly be good for sustainable diets, can it?
New book on fermentation. Never enough of those.