Climate change

Nibbles: Rice biofortification, Wild walnuts, Himalayan agriculture, Eating invasives, Gissen on wine, Medicinal fungus, Soil initiative, Ag development in S Sudan, AVRDC and WorldFish, Value chains

Boffins to rice: Pump it Up!
Saving the nuts of Central Asia.
Nepali women abandon hybrids for landraces and community seedbanks. Weird thing is that it’s a WWF project. But where are the extensionists? If only they had listened in Bhutan. Ok that packed a lot of links in there.
Never saw an invasive I didn’t like.
Architectural theorist tackles wine. Not many people hurt.
Turns out 57 insect species can play host to that famous medicinal fungus that led to war between Tibetan communities a couple of years back. Which helps how?
An envelope is opened at FAO.
Seeds come to South Sudan. One hopes they are of the right kinds. And that somebody is collecting what was there before. Maybe someone should call WWF.
You want vegetables with your fish?
Crops for the Future says not all middlemen bad.

And if you can’t get to Kew, how about an ethnobotany talk in Denver, Colorado? Or maybe one on GPS and plants, same venue? Can’t make either? Watch a lecture on Schultes in the Amazon. He’s the Father of Ethnobotany, after all.
Misclassification of Hemp Holds Back Industrial Applications. Duuuuuuuuuude.
Write a blog on youth and agriculture, win big money. Yeah, right, I’ve heard that one before… I’m still here, Sergey.
Hawaii’s Breadfruit Festival is coming! So get in the mood.
Sotheby’s auctions heirloom. No, really. Alas, probably no breadfruits.
Now, what can I say about Scotsmen and pubs that won’t be construed as a racist slur? Probably nothing.
Old potatoes helping Andean farmers cope with climate change. And, no doubt, obesity too.
Conference on pesticide use on minor crops. Oh, to live-tweet that one.
Micro-livestock makes it into the New Yorker. Can the backlash be far behind?

“…drought-tolerant species are not necessarily following the general “stress-tolerator” syndrome.” Meaning?
More on that cassava-problems-will-get-worse-with-climate-change thing from CIAT.
More on that beer-will-save-East-African-agriculture-from-drought thing.
Two of the Wise Men to rescue “poverty-stricken Ethiopian communities.”
F. H. King’s Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan: The backstory. Via.
Presenting South Korea’s genebank.

IRRI working to adapt rice to climate change, thanks to genebank.
Palestine gets a genebank. And genebankers, thanks to ICARDA.
Lupin ice-cream. Sounds yummie.
Ethio Organic Seed Action “trains farmers in the use of traditional seeds.” I doubt it, but the stuff on community genebanks is nice.
Goat racing in Uganda. Where are the photos?
IFPRI publishes companion volume to Millions Fed.
Vouching for seed vouchers.
Breeding anti-GMO maize. Well, kinda.
“Beer could provide lifeline for South Sudan’s small farmers.” I know how they feel.

How species survive climate change.
Charles C. Mann, author of great books on pre-Columbian America and the consequences of the Columbian Exchange, interviewed.
Dreamy pictures of old British trees.
“Protecting wild species may require growing more food on less land.” Great press release headlines of our times. Fortunately Mongabay has a discussion.
Coconut lethal yellowing wreaking havoc in Mozambique.
What makes a good food value chain?
Boffins want to re-activate coral genes in temperate plants to stop them getting sunstroke. Or something.
Old friend engaged by GlobalHort to work on position paper on “Promoting Agrobiodiversity for International Development: A Rationale and Roadmap for Collective Action”. Go, Hannah.
Grapes vs apples in Sonoma County.
Aaargh, pirates smoked like chimneys and drank like fish. Well I never. Anyway, nice to see them making full use of the local agrobiodiversity products.