Nibbles: Biofortification, NUS, Wakehurst Place, Cheesy map, Seeds2Zim, Food bibliography, Eucalypt genome, Oregano in the US, CFC, Rotations, Malaria drugs, Quinoa in Colorado, Pacific pineapple, Rhubarb event, Mango festival, Araucaria, American chestnut, Potato casserole, Coffee breeding, Tulips galore, George Harrison Shull, Seed saving, Chinese agriculture, European agroforestry, Eat This Podcast

Webinar on biofortification, today.
Book on Asian underutilized plant species, which we somehow missed when it came out in 2014. Unless it didn’t.
The Millennium Seed Bank isn’t just great in and of itself, it also sits in a wonderful garden: the man who has been keeping that going for the past decade has just retired. Best wishes!
A map of French cheese. Internet surrenders.
North Jersey donates organic seeds to Zimbabwe. In related news, they also sending coals to Newcastle.
Online bibliography of food history. There goes the morning.
All hail the eucalyptuzzzzz genome.
The unintended consequences of WW2: oregano.
Follow the construction of the Crops for the Future Centre HQ. Over 10 episodes, mind, so gird your loins.
Breaking down crop rotation.
Malaria drugs through the ages. Make mine a G&T.
Yes, how is quinoa doing in Colorado?
New pineapples for the Pacific. They’ll probably end up canned.
Good news: Clumber Park has a Rhubarb Weekend. Bad news: we missed it. Ditto the Goa Mango Festival.
Mapping every monkey puzzle tree in Britain. Well, someone has to.
Transgenic chestnuts taking over New York State. You can bet someone’s going to map them.
The US potato renaissance we all knew was happening finally hits the headlines.
The latest on coffee improvement, including news from the CATIE collections.
Tulipmania: The video.
The father of hybrid corn.
Would he have approved of saving seeds? I suspect yes.
Chinese agriculture adds a few (thousand) years.
Europe has agroforestry too, and lots of it.
Think I missed something? Check if Jeremy caught it in his Tasty Morsels.

Fresh Nibbles

A paean to diverse diets is just what we all need.
And another one, from the MIT Technology Review of all places.
Menawhile, there’s only one reference to dietary diversity in the World Bank’s investment framework for nutrition.
Maybe you have to quantify that diversity before you can save it? Now where have I heard that before?
Meanwhile, Europe reports on biodiversity-friendly farming practices. Does that include the biodiversity of the actual crops? Perhaps surprisingly, yes!
You want biodiversity-friendly farming practices? Talk to Indigenous people. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has launched an e-consultation on “Preserving, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems.”
There’s diversity in asparagus too.
Genebanks can help with those biodiversity-friendly practices, diverse diets and rops and Indigenous practices.
Even big international genebanks.
Even the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
But some are in trouble.
Though others are coming back.

Published on November 7, 2024

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