SciDevNet’s roundup of agri-biotech in Africa is online.
FAO Commission meets
The Eleventh regular session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA-11) is on in Rome all this week. You can follow the deliberations day by day courtesy of IISD. Better than being there. No, really.
Worldwatch Institute is also taking an interest.
And of course the agenda and all the background documentation are online.
Gone fishing
Fish are agricultural biodiversity too!
World diet photos
“One picture is worth a thousand words” department: The Time feature I linked to in an earlier post has a fascinating photo essay associated with it, showing the weekly food consumption of 16 families around the world. I hadn’t noticed it until Jeremy pointed it out to me. Seems to me that if you’re trying to stay away from processed foods and have a nice, healthy, balanced diet you’re best off living in Sicily, Egypt, Mexico or Bhutan. Would be great to do something similar at the variety level, for example looking at the diversity within potatoes or wheat used by different families around the world.
Pharaonic eats
Ancient Egyptian cooking.