Climate change

Nibbles: Coconut disease, Maize hybrid history, Measuring nutrition, Pollan on biodiversity & health, Ugandan staples, Shamba Shapeup, Ethiopian wine, South African diversification, Damn dumplings, Disease curation, Quinoa curation, Mango treat, Indian mangoes

Lethal Yellowing doing for coconuts — and livelihoods — in Mozambique. And typhoons in the Philippines.
Potted history of maize hybrids from 1998.
Unusual rice and tomato species sequenced.
The challenges of measuring the impact of nutrition interventions.
Old interview with Michael Pollan on biodiversity and health resurfaces, maybe to coincide with the above.
What will be the nutrition impact of replacing matooke with cassava, I wonder? Maybe if it was yellow cassava it would be ok?
Maybe Shamba Shapeup will tell us.
Well, there’s always wine. Even in Ethiopia.
Or insects. Or roiboos. If you’re in South Africa.
Chinese dumplings responsible for climate change.
New Scoop.it page on downy mildews.
And new Flipboard section on quinoa. And something to add to it.
Eid Mubarak! Celebrate with mango kunafa.
But which variety?

Asian genes in European pigs are a good thing.
How about American pigs though?
Great Spanish language cacao infographic. And more along the same lines.
Innovative apple family farming in the Tyrol.
Not sure that will be much use in terms of global food security, as per this recent review, but you never know. Because, you know, climate change?
Well, there’s always wild food. Though in some places more than others.
Student videos on the origin of food plants.
But did any of them change their lives?
Oxfam thinks teff can change lives.
Different part of same continent, different grain to revitalize.
Different continent, different grains to revitalize.
Bah, who needs cereals when you have indigenous vegetables?
Wait, what? Seedless mangoes? Why is this not first-page news?

Drought tolerance? It’s the carbs.
Whisky 101.
Coincidental mashup of the above. Barley used in whisky production provides clue to drought tolerance.
Pre-hispanic veggies.
Pre-hispanic carbs.
Pre-hispanic livestock.
Sustainable agriculture deconstructed.
GBIF scores Chinese specimens.

At the risk of annoying Dave Wood again, here’s something on agroforestry in Africa.
A podcast on what it takes to make parmigiano reggiano.
Speaking of Italian agricultural products, it’s not all sweetness and light.
But can you put purslane on pizza?
Funding breadfruit.
Community seed banks take off in India.
Kiribati will need some too. But in Fiji.
The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative is on Slideshare. Not much comfort for Kiribati, I suspect.