The Future of Pastoralism in Africa conference is off and running at ILRI in Addis Abba. There’s the these days obligatory Twitter hashtag: #futpastafrica2011. But also a no doubt soon-to-be dépassé website.
Nibbles: Chickens!, Nigerian R&D, Obesity, Neglected species,
- Henderson’s Handy-Dandy Chicken Chart. Parochial: only one naked.
- “Local farmers hold key to ending hunger“. Q&A with Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Nigeria.
- Selected papers on Food & Obesity, free from the Journal of Public Health Policy.
- UK academic promotes underutilised species shock.
Learning agrobiodiversity
AgriCultures Network has a couple more modules in its Learning AgriCultures series up on the website, on “Labour and energy” and “Markets and finance” for small-scale farmers. Module 3 is the one with the discussion of agrobiodiversity.
Nibbles: Mulberry, Vegetable consumption, Banana peel, Timber
- Mulberries preserved twice, in the Pamirs and with a Slow Food Presidium. Kudos to Bioversity.
- Gardeners eat more veggies, but not fruit. Press release and paper.
- Banana peels concentrate heavy metals. Article and paper.
- Where tropical timber goes. GOOD Infographic.
David Attenborough on Foreign Fare
Anyone got a copy of David Attenborough’s Life Stories, Series 2, Foreign Fare radio programme about the potatoes, Irish and sweet? For personal use only, you understand.
Later: I discovered that it was on the BBC World Service this morning, and is still available, for almost another week. And after just 30 seconds of listening, I feel it my duty to point out that there are not two but three kinds of artichoke, at least in English. Attenborough forgot about Stachys affinis, the Chinese artichoke. Common names, again. But an entertaining enough romp through the Solanaceae.