Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Found these in an up-market curio shop in Nairobi’s Yaya Centre shopping centre. I’ve never come across Wild Living before, but they sound like an interesting outfit, doing some serious value addition to local products by the look of it: From Baobab and Shea to Leleshwa and Acacia frankinsense forest oils, East Africa, the cradle …
Continue reading “Baobab, frankincense and croton: private sector brings gifts”
Busy? I should say so. And major kudos to Luigi for shouldering the burden. In the process of declaring RSS bankruptcy this morning, just four items seemed both timely and worthwhile. So here goes nothing: Harvesting frankincense robs the trees, so at least do it right. If Coke with Stevia is Coke Life, Alun Salt …
Continue reading “Nibbles: Frankincense, Stevia, Market forces”
Boswellia back in the news. Must be Christmas. Yesterday was Terra Madre Day; there’s something satisfyingly meta about being a day late with that news. The Germans want justice for food from far away. Bioversity larges up its Heuristic Framework to boost the conservation and use of crop biodiversity. Archaeologist finds ancient Roman grape seeds, …
Why do chillies differ in their heat? Ed Yong explains all, and links to the peer-reviewed paper. Frankincense “doomed”. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take a number. And a merry Christmas to you too, publicity hounds. IRRI to sequence 8.3% of its rice diversity. I’ll alert the media. No, wait … Speaking of which … Diversification of …
“…drought-tolerant species are not necessarily following the general “stress-tolerator” syndrome.” Meaning? More on that cassava-problems-will-get-worse-with-climate-change thing from CIAT. More on that beer-will-save-East-African-agriculture-from-drought thing. Two of the Wise Men to rescue “poverty-stricken Ethiopian communities.” F. H. King’s Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan: The backstory. Via. Presenting South Korea’s genebank.