Archaeology

Nibbles: Ecosystem vulnerability, Mayan chocolate, Natural dyes, Japanese art

Climate change affecting ecosystems. Well I never. Mashup with crop wild relative distributions needed!
Hershey scientist studies ancient chocolate.
Natural dyes in Indonesia. Temptation to pun successfully resisted for once.
Agrobiodiversity in art: The Old Plum.

Rust boffins meet in St Petersburg. Good luck to them: sounds like they’ll need it.
Did 3000-year-old rice really sprout in Vietnam? Nah.
Indian farmers queue up for old rice seeds. Not old as in the Vietnam case above though.
And more rice. Did the Chinese really use the sticky kind in mortar 1500 years ago? Yep.
More ancient technology. This time Mayan rubber.
“…a major leap forward in species-area relationship fitting…”: where will future habitat loss wreak the most havoc on plant species? And on crop wild relatives?
The pulses of Africa. Well, a couple of them.

Cacao beer. What’s not to like?
CABI blog deconstructs pesticidal plants.
Worldwatch blog on how “livestock can improve food security and preserve and rebuild communities.”
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park tries to diversify.

ILRI continues its attempt to take over the internet.
Dorian Fuller summarizes rice in Madagascar in a paragraph. Good trick. And for his next one he rounds up the latest on bananas. The guy’s a machine.
No adaptation without agrobiodiversity, rapt masses told. And here, like manna from heaven, is an example. Well, sort of.
Bruegel on agriculture. With picture goodness.