- Perennial grains need your help.
- “In Cuba no one is helpless or dying of hunger.”
- Biodiversity in wine champion. But what about other cultivated species?
- “It’s called Ukee and it is a very special red raspberry“. Jeremy says “BTDTGTTS.”
- A sceptic evaluates “Food, Inc.”. Jeremy says “we shall see”.
- “I hope that the charcoal fever passes and the zealots and rent seekers move on to the next big fantasy”. May they pyrolize in Hell.
- Welcome, “curly cucumbers, crooked carrots and mottled mushrooms“!
Good news from Trinidad & Tobago
While many newspaper readers and television viewers overseas are, repeatedly, exposed to negative news about this country, particularly with respect to the uncomfortable rise in the level of murders, it would be a plus for the image of the twin island State if these people could be apprised as well of the contribution of Trinidad and Tobago’s International Cocoa Gene Bank.
Go get ’em, George Alleyne, who writes to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Cocoa Gene Bank. We all share the problem of interesting people in news about agricultural biodiversity, when what they really want is murder and mayhem.
New LEISA mag online
A new edition of LEISA magazine is online, with it’s usual eclectic selection of articles, this time dedicated to the farmer as entrepreneur. It isn’t the most user-friendly site, but we did a bit of work and singled out a few articles.
- Building a community seed bank.
- Marketing a diversity of fruit products.
- High altitude rice in Rwanda.
- The UN’s “new” approach to agriculture.
Anything else you think we should link to specifically?
Nibbles: Agroforestry, Forecasts, Coffee, Pigs, GIS, Potatoes
- North American Agroforestry; new edition of an old book.
- “Supply will go up, demand will go up, and real prices of grain and oilseeds also will go up” over next 10 years. That’s nice.
- Nescafe coffee goes green in Philippines.
- Rare-breed jamon at $490 a leg. Not so marginal any more.
- Visualizing Tweeter biodiversity observations. Over to you, Luigi.
- Ireland hosts International Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium meeting. Well, obviously.
Nibbles: Indian livestock, Breadfruit, Grants, CIAT, Coffee
- “Estimates indicate that 50% of the indigenous goat, 30% of sheep, 20% of cattle and almost all poultry breeds are threatened.”
- Fiji studies breadfruit varieties.
- Research grants for young scientists in developing countries. ABD is in. Via .
- CIAT has a blog, and it’s pretty.
- Small coffee farmers honoured in Peru. For conservation!