- Assisted location is now managed relocation. So that’s alright then.
- Transhumance is good for ecosystem. Oh, and bison too.
- Geotourism in Yellowstone has a website. Can agroecotourism be far behind? I’m afraid so.
- No relationship between parasite load and genetic diversity in earthworms. Alas.
- “The naming of fish is a nightmare. They have more aliases than Maltese pimps.” Which is why Latin binomials were invented, duh.
- Pix of Colombian cucurbit (and other) diversity.
A geographer on crop wild relatives and lots of other things
Our friend and occasional contributor Andy Jarvis was interviewed recently in Nairobi on the occasion of the first Africa Agriculture Geospatial Week. Read all about why he is so “promiscuous.”
Nibbles: Pepper, Persimmons, Prosopis, Bio-banking
- Is Kampot pepper the best in the world?
- How the Japanese deal with persimmons.
- Making the Atacama bloom. Sort of.
- Bio-banking is all well and good, but will it be applicable to agrobiodiversity as well as orchids and pandas?
Wouldn’t you know it. That Kampot pepper link has rotted away. But you can still find the original thanks to The Wayback Machine.
The connection between wine and beer is agrobiodiversity
Sandor Katz has even had a poem written about his singular obsession:
Come on friends and lend me an ear,
I’ll explain the connection between wine and beer,
And sourdough and yogurt and miso and kraut,
What they have in common is what it’s all about.
Oh the microorganisms, Oh the microorganisms. . .
But don’t let that put you off. Katz is the author of Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods. You can read the introduction, and various other excerpts online, as well as order the book, of course. Microbes are agricultural biodiversity too!
Crops watched at Cropwatch
This is a new one on me. Cropwatch “is an independent watchdog for Endangered & Vulnerable Natural Aromatic Products used in the Aroma (Perfumes, Flavours, Aromatherapy, Cosmetics), Herbal, Traditional Medicine & Phytochemical Industries.” All those capitals give a bit of the flavour of the site. Let’s just say it’s not really beautiful. But it is informative.