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Nibbles: Micronutrients, Population, Opium, Nixtamalization, Chocolate, Seed swap, Dog domestication, Meeting, Biofuel failure, Mesquite

“Organic management practices appear to result in elevated levels of grain micronutrient concentration.” By no means the whole story.
Tom too takes The Economist to task.
Afghanistan’s opium growers. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Nixtamalization for the rest of us. More than you could ever want to know. Rye tortillas!
Chocolate began with leftover beer? Seems unlikely.
Take the fight to the monster’s lair. Swap seeds in Brussels. h/t Patrick.
Dogs or dholes? Yeah I didn’t know what they were either.
There was a workshop on “Seed System and Climate Change” in Bhutan a month ago.
Big biofuel project in Tanzania bites the dust. And the land they “leased,” what happened to that?
Ancient grinding holes. Might mesquite be another edible never domesticated?

Dave’s Garden does the apple forests of Almaty.
Agave nectar sweetens the prospects of Otomi women in Mexico.
Rhizowen investigates silverweed while taxonomists slug it out: Potentilla anserina or Argentina anserina?
Just what the urban poultryperson needs: a hotel for chickens.
National Gene Bank of Egypt website untouched.
A diplomat visit’s Cameroon’s Cornice Agro Pastorale, and is impressed.
Tackling climate change benefits health … and vice versa.
Almost certainly more than you needed to know about Palm Oil palm.