Nibbles: City farming, Yeast diversity, Fungal taxonomy, Ankole cattle, Fruit breeding, Goat improvement, Private hunger, Vietnam cacao, Sequencing life, Old vegetables, Cola politics, Lugar Center, Wither biofuels, Plant breeder award, Amateur potato breeding

“Fifteen to twenty percent of the world’s food is produced through urban farming, involving an estimated 800 million people.”
We shaped yeasts as much as they shaped us. Now to sort out their nomenclature, along with the rest of the benighted fungal kingdom.
Cheese is just one way yeasts shaped us. What kind of cheese can you make from Ankole milk, I wonder.
Sean Myles tells us how his lab “makes food better.”
Tan Sonstegard of USDA tells us how ADAPTMap can make goats better. Skip to 2 mins in, if you want to avoid adorable footage of cute (human) kids. I love a nice bit of goat cheese.
Can the private sector help combat hunger and malnutrition? Gee, I dunno, do tell me.
Vietnamese chocolate comes of age. Someone mention the private sector?
Gene jockeys take over world. World surrenders.
What did the Elizabethans ever do for us? Well, they grew funky vegetables for one thing.
Both Colas sign up to FAO guidelines that “protect the rights of poor and vulnerable people to land, livelihoods and food security.” But is it all marketing?
The Lugar Center has a bunch of bibliographic resources for researchers.
Biofuels? Bah, humbug.
Jorge Dubcovsky, a professor of plant sciences at the University of California–Davis, snags another award.
“Are you all converts to the cause of backyard potato breeding?” Do tell. And so we come full circle.