- Online map of horticultural projects. Mash it up with the CGIAR map, anyone?
- Evolution and taxonomy of crop groups: Annonaceae and Allium.
- Dealing with wheat stripe in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Some good news there.
- Nigel Chaffey does his usual thing. Inimitable.
- Today’s thing on what Africa needs for this Greener or Double Green or whatever Revolution everyone wants it to have.
- Latest from FAO on what’s happening in livestock genetic resources conservation around the world.
- And the latest wonder food. I’ll pass, thanks.
- Improving capers through radiation. One of those things where you have to wonder whether it’s really all worth it.
- The genetic diversity of the Polish common hamster. Wait, what?
- Biofortified crops to the rescue. Again. Gotta wonder about overexposure. The backlash, when it inevitably comes, is going to be a doozy.
What’s new about intercropping in Malawi? Surprised that this kind of thing gets into PNAS. I remember driving down to the Kenya coast from Nairobi 30+ years ago and seeing mile after mile of maize-pigeonpea intercrop (it was all over East Africa). There is nothing new whatever about this: farmers all over the tropics have been intercropping cereals with legumes for ever. My favourite is pearl millet and Vigna aconitifolia intercropped on unvegetated sand dunes in the Tihama in Yemen: farming on the edge.