Nibbles: Rice intensification, Community genebank, Biodiversity & poverty, Borlaug, Deconstructing recipes, Biofortification conference, IPCC, Kenyan agricultural changes, Collecting wild chickpeas, African peanuts, Insurance for herders, Old fields, Millet fairs & diseases, GDP and malnutrition, Yeast evolution

From SRI to SARI. Rice has never had it so good.
Look there’s even a guy in Orisha who grows 920 varieties.
Biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction: Unproven. Doesn’t sound like they looked at agricultural biodiversity though.
Contrary take on the Borlaug legacy.
From Map Your Recipe to Compare Your Recipe. h/t Rachel Laudan.
Follow that biofortification conference in Kigali. Maybe they’ll talk about recipes.
Guardian Environment blogger breaks down the agricultural bits of the IPCC report for you. Lots of that going around.
No conceivable reason for growing jatropha in Kenya. One of those times when you wonder whether anyone had predicted this would happen at the time.
So does anyone know now whether switching from coffee to banana might be a bad idea in the long run? This is your chance.
Wild chickpea to the rescue.
The ups and downs of groundnut research in Africa.
Islamic insurance for herders. Demand, meet supply.
Celtic fields can still be seen, if you know what to look for.
Seed fair in Senegal exchanges pearl millet. Could usefully do the same in Namibia, it looks like.
Does economic growth help in reducing child malnutrition? It depends on whether you plot % malnutrition against GDP per capita or annual change of the first against annual change in the latter.
The complicated story of yeast, unravelled.