The latest issue of the CGIAR’s e-newsletter does a number on agrobiodiversity, in an effort to position the system for Nagoya. 1 But what about that megaprogramme, then?
10 of Europe’s best under-the-radar food festivals
Last Sunday’s Observer magazine listed 10 food festivals across Europe. As ever, if you go, we’ll be happy to publish a report. Personally, the Fête des Legumes Oubliés would be my preference. But then there’s the Festa della Zucca, closer to home, and the Piment d’Espelette Festival in France, which we’ve blogged about before. The one I really want to go to, not mentioned by The Observer, is the Fiesta de la Alubia in Tolosa. I can’t find much about it now, but I vividly remember from my most recent trip to Gipuzkoa the potential of being inducted as a Knight of the Alubia. That appeals. As do the beans, among the finest known to humanity.
Sustainability envisioned
Thanks to Resilience Science for spotting an attempt to gather together all the pictures of the concept of sustainability that the net could produce. One of them is bound to be just the job, so go ahead. Recycle, reuse, reduce, right?
Nibbles: Cancun, Maya in Haiti, Indian Food, Pavlovsk, Currywurst, Banana biofuel, Book, Radio, Beer, East African cattle breed, Climate change and altitude, Amazon, Lycopersicon, Pollinator plants, Phenology, Economics
- Good COP, bad COP? Registration opens for Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010, at COP16, the Climate Change COP.
- Maya in Haiti? Jamaica? Institute expands its reach.
- India considering making the right to food an actual right to food. But how?
- Science magazine shares the Pav-Love-sk.
- “From 28 August to 3 October, the Curried Sausage Field is open to visitors on Diedersdorfer Weg in Berlin. This is BfR’s second didactic plant labyrinth.” Don’t even ask.
- Bananas for juice. Power type juice.
- New book explores history, future of international agriculture. Anyone reading it?
- Hear Bioversity’s DG warn Pacific islanders of fast food health risks.
- “Without the yeast, beer would be nonalcoholic and noncarbonated.” Yeah, but then what would be the point? The Ecological Society of America considers beer — and issues a delightful apology.
- Video on saving Ankole cattle.
- Amphibians find it hard to move higher in response to climate change. And plants? Crops? Wild relatives? Has anyone done the modelling?
- The pristine Amazon. Not.
- Wild tomatoes and drought.
- The best plants for pollinators.
- When are different crops sown around the world? Gotta love meta-analyses.
- Apparently conservationists interested in the economics of it all must abandon the “straightjacket of the Walrasian core.” So now there’s no excuse.
More on Meyer Memorial Medal
There’s a nice piece on Daniel Debouck and the Frank N. Meyer Memorial Medal on the SGRP website. Thanks to David Williams for the headsup.