Nibbles: Rural income sources, Medicinal trees, Saffron, Biofuel trees, Trout genome, Maize & drugs in Mexico, Bee-keeping, Urban ag, Food security, Jackfruit, SDG2015

Natural areas just as important for rural incomes as crops.
Because of things like medicinal plants, among others.
Not if the crop was saffron, though. Or multi-purpose biofuels?
Trout gets the genome treatment. I prefer it grilled with a little butter and parsley.
High maize prices good for one thing. Wanna guess?
Guerrilla bee-keepers in the Rust Belt.
Maybe they’ll be discussed in tomorrow’s tweetathon: Urban Food Security +SocialGood.
Brussels sprouts too, maybe: it’s urban agriculture, Jim, but not as we know it.
Another view on NatGeo’s five steps to food security. (Here’s Luigi’s.)
The key thing NatGeo left out: jackfruit.
Well, that, and multi-stakeholder partnerships. Of course.