The latest Plant Breeding News is out, though only if you’re registered for email alerts. However, in a couple of days you should be able to get October’s digest on the archive page, where you can also subscribe. Lots of stuff about breeding for climate change in this issue. It’s a great resource, brought to you by the Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB). And I’m not just saying that because they gave us a namecheck this month.
Climate change information discussed
CTA’s seminar to identify ways of improving access to climate change information for agriculture and rural development in ACP countries is off and running in Ouagadougou. There’s a blog to help you follow the proceedings. Agrobiodiversity is not explicitly listed as a theme, but I suspect it will come up.
Nibbles: Creole cooking, Cattle, Greenhouses, Cartograms
- Seychelles’ “living botanical herbarium of Creole Culture.”
- Kerala tries to save Vechur cattle.
- Terra Madre day 3: Tom ♥ Vandana.
- Pix of how intelligent greenhouses can be used to grow huge vegetables. I wonder if these technique can be applied to regenerating accessions in genebanks
- Don’t you just love cartograms?
Nibbles: Funding, Cow Gods, Ãœber Bee, Rice, Bushmeat, Oaks
- $50 million for climate change. Must be some for agricultural biodiversity. Via, which has the application forms.
- How the Egyptians came to venerate cattle.
- Building a better bee.
- Official US rice harvest forecasts 20% too high. Chinese comment: “Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.”
- How about without bushmeat?
- IUCN lists endangered oaks. Know any ex situ collections? Tell IUCN!
Nibbles: Heirlooms, Seed, Ethnic cuisine, Meat, Sheep
- “The ‘Heirloom Tomato Salad’ was made with a mix of Sweet 100 and Sungold tomatoes — both of which are hybrid varieties.”
- FARMER’S NOTEBOOK: The importance of preserving native seed varieties.
- Increasing culinary diversity in the US.
- Eat a kangaroo and save the planet. No? How about moose then? You can have too much culinary diversity, perhaps.
- Climate change: the silver lining.