- World Bank food snaps.
- Looks like there is phenotypic selection on flowering time.
- Workshop on revitalizing breadfruit in Hawaii. If you go, let us know.
- Sacred Seeds gardens around the world.
- How much do you know about animal production and health? FAO wants to know.
- CIAT now looking at soil biodiversity.
- Boffins can now clone plants as seeds. Clever, but is it good?
Nibbles: Food prices, Wheat breeding, Potato Park, Mead, Peanut processing
- Is the World Producing Enough Food? The NY Times has the answer(s).
- Aussies trying to get to grips with salinity through breeding. Very cool, but maybe they should just stop growing wheat and think of some other crop?
- Potato Park potatoes to be parked in the Bóveda Global de Semillas de Svalbard.
- You know what those naughty Vikings used to say: “Let there be mirth, mead and fornication!”
- Adding value to peanuts in Bolivia. KIT video.
Nibbles: Policy, Nutrition, Education, Svalbard, Plagues
- Looks interesting: Assessing the impact of rural policy on biodiversity: High Nature Value Farming in Italy. Next Thursday.
- Gates Foundation’s Sylvia Mathews Burwell says Fortify Lives with agriculture and Nutrition. In full.
- Ugandans! Grow sorghum, get a scholarship for your child. Win-win. Cheers, Nile Breweries.
- Australian farmer tells all about Svalbard.
- ILRI speaks about climate change, livestock and plagues — The Economist listens. Respect!
Nibbles: Conference, Wild Relatives, Climate Change, Rotation
- IFPRI’s press release for the big Health, Ag, Nutrition shindig.
- Crop Wild Relatives: Plant Conservation for Food Security in England published.
- A Missing Link in Climate Change Policy. Can you guess what it is yet?
- Crop rotation is good for you. And in other news …
Nibbles: Colombian coffee, Nutrition
- Who’d be a coffee farmer in Colombia?
- Farming First eats nutrition.