- How to get livestock to burp less? Spice their food.
- Prunus africana connections between E and W Africa.
- And more from the E African highlands: this time about bananas and drought.
- Making money out of gum arabic in Mauritania.
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?
Nibbles: Coffee rust, PECS, Agrofuels, Israel, Mayan farming, Cannabis breeding, Drought resistance
- Resistance to coffee rust found in India, though not clear where. Now for the hard part …
- Arguments for Payments for Ecosystem Services. Matt points to a conference in 2013, but where are the actual payments?
- “Rather than decrying development in India and China we should be strenuously objecting to agrofuels.” So lets distinguish agrofuels from biofuels.
- Today’s new genebank is in Israel. Bet there are some crop wild relatives in there.
- Those Mayans were boffo agricultural engineers.
- “Alcohol-free” cannabis. I don’t understand any of this.
- A gene associated with flowering time has alleles associated with a rainfall gradient. h/t Jacob. Cool.
Climate change, agriculture and web 2.0
A new website to do with agriculture and climate change for you to explore: Climate-Smart Agriculture from FAO. Basically just a static selection of case studies, but interesting for all that, and maybe it will evolve into something a little more interactive. The Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has a blog if you’re into the whole web 2.0 experience thing.
Nibbles: PNG & CC, Pasture, Nagoya, Sesame, CIMMYT, Oryza, Tradition
- A view from Papua New Guinea on a project to prepare PNG agriculture for climate change.
- How to grow a properly biodiverse pasture. Hint: money isn’t enough.
- Another Nagoya round-up. And another.
- Sesamum monographed.
- Award for CIMMYT genebank.
- African rice domestication deconstructed.
- Traditional practices bad for Nigerian children, good for Chinese fish.