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Posted on January 19, 2010January 19, 2010

Gassing about beans

As the West and Central Africa Bean Research Network (WECABREN) regional meeting began today, the air was thick with expectation of improving ways to intensify bean production in the region, despite the expected effects of climate change.

I’ll bet it was. Read more here at the CIAT blog.

Posted on January 19, 2010January 19, 2010

Nibbles: Dogs dedomesticated, coffee, climate change squared, Rice. Carnival

  • Dogs live wild run free in Moscow.
  • Climate change and coffee. CIAT rules.
  • “Reasons to be optimistic”: Jarvis on Copenhagen.
  • “The meeting did deliver”: DFID blogger on Copenhagen.
  • Jazzman rice. Say it loud, it’s Murcan and proud. h/t James.
  • Scientia Pro Publica, the blog carnival, is up, with added capuccino madness
Posted on January 17, 2010January 17, 2010

Nibbles: Indian apples, Taro leaf blight, Pachira

  • Video on the effect of climate change on apple cultivation in Himachal Pradesh.
  • Video on taro breeding in the Dominican Republic.
  • Photos of Malabar chestnut.
Posted on January 15, 2010January 15, 2010

Nibbles: Cyanide, Pollinators, Artemisia, AnGR

  • More carbon dioxide means more cyanide in cassava, relative to protein. Will the good news never end?
  • Pollinators like diversity too.
  • Another day, another genome.
  • FAO surveys livestock conservation community “to evaluate the current status of existing national and multicountry conservation arrangements and reveal the possibilities for regional collaboration in the future.”
Posted on January 15, 2010

For your bookshelf

Just a quick note on two books on subjects close to our hearts here at the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog: climate change and agriculture, and mapping species distributions. We’ll be trying to get hold of them for review. Preferably for free. Hint hint.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. The COUSIN project aims to conserve (trans situ, no less) and use crop wild relatives in Europe.
    2. That “use” part can be tough.
    3. But that doesn’t stop the fine people at Aardaia. At least where aardaker (Lathyrus tuberosus) is concerned.
    4. From alternative potatoes in the Netherlands to alternative beans in Indonesia. All in the cause of diversification.
    5. No need to find an alternative to amaranth in the American SW. Not with devoted chefs on the job.
    6. The Iraqi Seed Collective is taking seeds from American genebanks to that country’s diaspora in the US, and eventually back to Iraq itself. Maybe chefs will help.
    7. Good thing there are genebank backups, eh?

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