Climate change

Nibbles: Heirloom Auction, Flatulence, Trade, Swaziland, Turkey genome, Sorghum

The Art of Farming: How to fund heirloom veggies, NYC black-tie style.
Oregano to save the planet from bovine emissions.
Kew blogs “strange articles of trade“, all examples of agricultural biodiversity. How about them worms?
Swazi farmer breaks with grazing tradition to adapt to climate change.
Another day, another DNA “sequence”. The turkey.
Overselling popped sorghum? On YouTube.

The essential guide to the 10th Conference of the Parties to the convention on Biological Diversity. Unmissable.
Popghum? What genius came up with that name? And now that it’s big in Virginia, can Africa and Latin America be far behind?
Jeremy Bentham excoriates the Russian Federation on Pavlovsk. And gets it mostly right. Yes, that Jeremy Bentham.
Apparently water diversity is also a good thing for food security.
Climate change! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Huh!
“Plumpy’Nut is not a miracle cure for global hunger or for global malnutrition.” Say it isn’t so!
Never mind wheat, here’s the great buckwheat panic of 2010, kasha chaos.

17 years of data confirm fears of bee decline.
Slideshow on Egyptian Deserts Genebank; prepare to be astounded.
Slideshow on US National Plant Germplasm System; prepare to be even more astounded.
Livestock and climate change, a background paper from ILRI.
“Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest.” The good news: it’s corporate, so can be pressured to stop.

Climate change ain’t going to be good for cattle.
But will be fabulous for breeders of drought-resistant maize.
A fifth of Africa’s freshwater plants and animals threatened. How many of these are important to local people’s nutrition and health? A lot, I bet.
Just a couple guys, modeling the spread of maize genetic diversity in the Americas.
Uganda turns to wild relatives for new rice varieties.
Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century recognizes importance of agrobiodiversity. Good to know.
New Agriculturalist revisits veg-garden-in-a-sack.
FAO policy brief on urban agriculture.

Host a volunteer school food gardener (in the US).
M.S. Swaminathan’s menu for food security in India. Burp.
Purmina Menon’s menu for food security in India takes us beyond food. Pardon me.
Anyone for edible orchids? Anissa Helou on salep.
Wasp flies in hot pursuit of cassava mealybugs.
Melinda ♡ breastfeeding. The basis for sound nutrition.
Humped conch got bigger as a result of human activities — despite being hunted. Complex.
“Africa to become world’s breadbasket.” Makes a change from being the world’s basketcase.