Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
One (admittedly fairly big) thing to do to fix the food system. Two-faced fique. 14 minutes — count them — on the Land Institute’s work on perennial cereals. Well worth it. 18 graphics to explain the food system. You know, the one that needs fixing.
Palau finds salt-tolerant taros. Elsewhere in the Pacific, researchers try to revive bele. That would be aibika. Or slippery kabis. Or Abelmoschus manihot. Which is a polyploid, isn’t it? Not to mention perennial. Bound to be lots of Pacific stuff at the Society for Economic Botany’s meeting, going on NOW. No, wait, it’s ending today. …
Conservation project fails to work. But lessons are learned. The archaeology of grasspea. Mainly Aegean, as it turns out. Artificial selection can help fill gaps left by other kind. Nestlé accused of stealing roiboos. Tea or frog?
Wes Jackson, the pioneer of perennial prairie polyculture, is to receive the 6th Environmental Award from Prescott College in Arizona for the work of The Land Institute, according to a press release. I’ve always had a lot of respect for Jackson and his vision of what agriculture could be, really learning from nature to craft …
That’s according to Bill Gates, on his visit to The Bread Lab. May come as a surprise to CIMMYT and ICARDA, and to their partners at TraitGenetics. Or to the bunch of Italian farmers Jeremy interviewed for the latest Eat This Podcast. Or to everyone at the Land Institute and elsewhere working on perennial wheat. …
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