Nibbles: AGRA, National security, Filipino fruits, Scuba rice, Tasteless pea, Blue Jay bean, Taiwan genebanks, Agrobiodiversity walks

  1. NGOs call on USAID to stop supporting AGRA. And not for the first time either.
  2. Report calls for US to invest more in agricultural research in support of global food security. AGRA unavailable for comment.
  3. A pean to the fruit trees of the Philippines. I’ll second that.
  4. Scuba rice comes to Africa. What took it so long?
  5. Apparently there’s a “wild pea plant” in India in which the flavour gene is turned off, and that’s a good thing. Going to have to look into this.
  6. A famous Canadian bean makes a come-back. Of course there are famous Canadian beans. More famous than that tasteless pea anyway.
  7. Nice piece on Taiwan’s crop genebanks. Lots of famous varieties in there no doubt.
  8. I really like the concept of “agrobiodiversity walks.” There should be one built around that wild tasteless pea.

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