- Yucca flowers not at all yucky to eat.
- Dept of Schadenfreude: First parasitic nematodes reported in biofuel crops.
- “I’ve often thought about this return to local knowledge and food in India.” Had no idea there had been a move away from local food in India.
- Biological collections porn.
- Breeders’ wish list published.
- First GM bananas harvested. Do they make good beer?
- How to do Geographical Extrapolation Domain Analysis. Off you go now.
Stephen Colbert, on the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog ???
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Too much fun not to include. Thanks, Elli.
From one fish to feeding the world
If we’re feeding more people, more cheaply, how bad can that be?
Watch Dan Barber’s mesmerizing TedTalk and get the answers to that rhetorical question. This is storytelling at its best, storytelling with a real point, storytelling that could change the way people think.
Nibbles: Andean diversity, Mycoculture, Teff, Lentil
- Diversity to improve food security in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Mushroom farming in Kenya.
- Injera eating in Ethiopia.
- A new lentil! Be still my beating heart.
Featured: Haskaps
Paul Mitchell, of the haskap Canada website, clarifies:
Here is a link to the University of Saskatchewan’s fruit science program: http://www.fruit.usask.ca/haskap.html.
It was both Dr. Bob Bors from the U of S and Maxine Thompson from the University of Oregon who made the breeding advancements that led to the interest in these curious plants.
There actually was virtual international conference late last fall. It was held solely for researchers. Most of the material attendees were from Eastern Europe and Russia. I know that Dr. Bors had some involvement but I have not seen anything published as of yet.
That’s why we love the internet.