- Possibly interesting article on Nagoya ABS Protocol, but I’ll never know.
- Pomegranate juice fraud?
- Fort Collins genebank in the (local) news.
- Sudan to become self-sufficient in wheat. Sorghum also involved.
- James of the Giant Corn gives idiot pontificator a well-deserved drubbing.
- Brachiaria forage not a “magic bullet” shock.
- Chile moans about lack of benefit sharing, but fails to do anything about it.
- DG of Bioversity beats agricultural biodiversity for nutrition and health drum shock.
- Carol Deppe has a web site. (she’s the Backyard Vegetable Breeder person.)
Nibbles: Horticulture, Phylogeny, Wheat stripe, Chaffey, Shrubs, AnGR, Spirulina, Capparis, Cricetus, Biofortification
- Online map of horticultural projects. Mash it up with the CGIAR map, anyone?
- Evolution and taxonomy of crop groups: Annonaceae and Allium.
- Dealing with wheat stripe in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Some good news there.
- Nigel Chaffey does his usual thing. Inimitable.
- Today’s thing on what Africa needs for this Greener or Double Green or whatever Revolution everyone wants it to have.
- Latest from FAO on what’s happening in livestock genetic resources conservation around the world.
- And the latest wonder food. I’ll pass, thanks.
- Improving capers through radiation. One of those things where you have to wonder whether it’s really all worth it.
- The genetic diversity of the Polish common hamster. Wait, what?
- Biofortified crops to the rescue. Again. Gotta wonder about overexposure. The backlash, when it inevitably comes, is going to be a doozy.
Breeding for resilience
Breeding for resilience: a strategy for organic and low-input farming systems? — a conference organized by EUCARPIA that we mentioned a while back — kicks off next week, and the programme looks pretty interesting. I don’t see any obvious ways in which the organizers plan to share the contents more widely, at least until the obligatory proceedings are published, and I hear that there’s no space left.
I wonder what it would cost to hire a couple of top-notch bloggers to cover conferences like these. 1
Biofortified’s take on the biofortification conference
Over at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog, Jeremy has been critical of information coming out of the First Global Conference on Biofortification. He wonders if the organizers and attendees were/are too focused on a techno-fix rather than on diverse diets as a solution. This being a conference on biofortification, we talked about biofortification a lot, and it could be argued that biofortification is a techno-fix, whether by breeding or biotechnology.
Ah, but you just know there’s a “however” coming up, don’t you. Thanks to Anastasia for a great summary of the recent biofortification jamboree.
Nibbles: Advice, Advice, Advice, IR8
- Americans advised to eat diversity, by USDA and others. Wot, no fortified staples?
- Webcast on Food Systems and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa. h/t The Agrobiodiversity Grapevine.
- French vegetables disappearing? Je ne le crois pas.
- The Scientist Gardener tackles declining yields of miracle rice, but what has he done to his colour scheme?