- European are growing more vegetables. But how much of that is heirlooms?
- Canadian boffins grow wild potatoes for the leaves.
- Chinese wasp going to roast Italy’s chestnuts.
- The genetics of swine geography. Or is it the geography of swine genetics?
- The diversity of sauces.
- Cooking Flipper.
- Genetically engineered brewer’s yeast + cellulose-eating bacterium + biomass = methyl halides.
- Wild sheep runs wild in Cyrpus.
- “It can be planted in farms because it does not compete for resources with corn, coffee or bananas and acts as a nitrogen-fixing agent in the soil. The mpingo is also considered a good luck tree by the Chagga people who live on the slopes of the Mt. Kilimanjaro.”
Nibbles: Indian livestock, Breadfruit, Grants, CIAT, Coffee
- “Estimates indicate that 50% of the indigenous goat, 30% of sheep, 20% of cattle and almost all poultry breeds are threatened.”
- Fiji studies breadfruit varieties.
- Research grants for young scientists in developing countries. ABD is in. Via .
- CIAT has a blog, and it’s pretty.
- Small coffee farmers honoured in Peru. For conservation!
Nibbles: Bamboo, Methane, Obama, Pests
- Fiat ghost paper. From bamboo.
- “If a cow burps, how do you measure it?“
- Recruiting drive: “I want you to continue to be my little ambassadors in your own home and your own communities.”
- “Insects and humans compete for food.” Say it isn’t so, Lubin Library.
A Star is Born
Dr Masaru Iwanaga used to run the CIAT genebank and has been deputy director general of Bioversity International and director general of CIMMYT. He is now director of the National Institute of Crop Science in Tsukuba, Japan. He’s had a lifelong committment to the use of agricultural biodiversity. He was recently interviewed for Japanese TV, and a preview of the result is online. (You can also download the full 28 minute video but you have to install stuff.) Alas, it is, of course, entirely in Japanese, but it seems to me that everybody enjoyed the experience tremendously. Just wish I could follow what’s going on. Can anyone help with a translation?
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2nd International Conference on Landscape and Urban Horticulture
…took place in Bologna last week. The programme looks interesting. Anyone out there go? The abstracts will be on Acta Horticulturae in due course. Via.