- What I really need today is some Tibetan amdo milk tea. Very parky out.
- Failing that, these cartograms will keep me warm.
- This list of supposedly amazing agriculture maps is only meh, though. Needed more cartograms.
- Oh wait, there are other fermented options out there.
- ICIPE gets into Big Data.
- Toystory has some big data of his own. Worrying perhaps to think what he’s done to the diversity of the breed, but let’s not be churlish about his achievement. At least he wasn’t a Nazi.
- UK welcomes back some bees.
- There was a big UC Davis–Mars Symposium yesterday on “An exploration of scientific discovery, innovation and collaboration in food, agriculture and health.” Some of it was on Twitter.
- Roundup of crop wild relatives etc. research at US Davis.
Nibbles: American goats, Ancient dogs, Colorado sheep, Beer vs Wine, Vitis breeding, Southern cooking, Pennsylvania farming, Cherokee seeds
- A distinctly US flavour to Nibbles today, for some reason.
- A map of every goat in the US. Texas is the goat hotspot.
- Not there with dogs yet, but at least we now know when they arrived.
- How about sheep, though?
- Interestingly, there are more wineries than breweries in Texas.
- Saving the winegrape, molecule by molecule. Including in Texas?
- Saving Southern cooking, seed by seed. You remember that peanut thing from yesterday?
- But Pennsylvania cooking?
- How about Cherokee cooking?
Nibbles: Domesticating grasses, Svalbard, Explaining genebanks, Australian edibles, Carolina African Runner, Whale ball beer
- Grasses with bigger seeds and fewer stems make better crops.
- Genebanks are just the start.
- Wait, what’s a genebank?
- How much bush tucker is in genebanks anyway?
- Bringing back the Southern peanut.
- Smoked whale testicle beer for you, sir?
DivSeek, and more, at PAGXXXIII
Yes, we’re back. Kinda. Sorta. And the new year means PAG, XXIII of that ilk. Which you can follow on Twitter, of course, and various other ways no doubt. The meeting was preceded this year by a separate event launching the DivSeek initiative, which got a lot of media attention. Oh, and which has its own Twitter account now too.
Susan McCouch, newly elected Chair of Steering Committee addresses @DivSeek Partners' Assembly http://t.co/roZ2wG73CQ pic.twitter.com/KzmOtiZ0mR
— DivSeek (@DivSeek) January 10, 2015
Nibbles: Eggplant, Potato seeds, Survey report
Let’s take this nice and slow …
- A history of the eggplant, and its usurpation. Is that even a word?
- The fun to be had from a few true
friendspotato seeds. - It’s out! “Lessons learned about ways and means to conserve and use genetic diversity to build resilience to climate change in food and agriculture systems survey report” (PDF)