- That BBC mega-doc on botany just started.
- PGR News from the Pacific: breadfruit and yams. My former colleagues keeping busy.
- How sustainable is your diet? Here comes the data.
- Cool historical atlas of Cuba has some agricultural stuff.
- The Millennium Seed Bank’s Seed Conservation Standards, final draft.
- Kojo Nnamdi Show on biofortification.
- German sausage and beer industries hit by scandal. What the hell will Luigi survive on?
- Maize beer, maybe. And amaranth.
- Thankfully neither of which have objectionable names.
- Nigel Maxted of University of Birmingham on crop wild relatives.
- His mate and mine Ehsan Dulloo of Bioversity, on the same thing.
- Ancient Irish apples, both wild and cultivated.
- Seed Treaty is short of funds, but they are working on it.
- The Crop Trust is on Slideshare!
- Banana symposium coming up in August.
- A theory of mammal domestication.
- First stab at the bread wheat genome. A tour de force.
“Seed Treaty is short of funds”: So what? The main problem for the Treaty and all countries great and small is that the Treaty has greatly reduced the flow of samples needed for crop production and crop development. This is a global disaster that no-one seems to be taking responsibility for (and it is not the fault of the major CG institutes – responsibility was taken entirely out of their hands in 1994 by the World Bank).
Going on now about funding is `head in the sand’. There are several mechanisms to directly link enhanced flow of samples to bilateral funding – the Treaty is ignoring these.