More of one of our favourite leitmotifs. Lois Englberger tells me her team’s latest paper on variety-level nutritional composition has been accepted by the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 1. It won’t actually be out for a few months, but here’s the abstract to whet your appetite:
Are farmers a dying breed?
I didn’t go looking for this. These three stories came to me independently, from different sources, from different parts of the world, but all within a day or two of each other. And all describing agriculture in crisis.
NTFP and poverty
Collecting wild foods an “efficient method of subsistence.”
Root crops vs grains
Do we need more vegeculture? Via Tucsonivores.
Poisonous agrobiodiversity
UK’s only public garden of “poisonous” plants opens at Alnwick Castle.