Adding value to agrobiodiversity, Venice-style.
Nibbles: Food photos, Phenology, Breadfruit, Medicinal plant gardens, Animal quiz, Soil agrobiodiversity, Cloning
- World Bank food snaps.
- Looks like there is phenotypic selection on flowering time.
- Workshop on revitalizing breadfruit in Hawaii. If you go, let us know.
- Sacred Seeds gardens around the world.
- How much do you know about animal production and health? FAO wants to know.
- CIAT now looking at soil biodiversity.
- Boffins can now clone plants as seeds. Clever, but is it good?
Nibbles: Food prices, Wheat breeding, Potato Park, Mead, Peanut processing
- Is the World Producing Enough Food? The NY Times has the answer(s).
- Aussies trying to get to grips with salinity through breeding. Very cool, but maybe they should just stop growing wheat and think of some other crop?
- Potato Park potatoes to be parked in the Bóveda Global de Semillas de Svalbard.
- You know what those naughty Vikings used to say: “Let there be mirth, mead and fornication!”
- Adding value to peanuts in Bolivia. KIT video.
Nibbles: Asparagus, Phosphorus, Goats, Chocolate
- Peru exporting water it doesn’t have, hidden in asparagus.
- P summit takes peak phosphorus seriously; will anyone else?
- Goats are us. New ILRI effort in India and Mozambique.
- Who ground the chocolate? Rachel puts cacao in perspective.
Hot sauce, madam?
They do have a knack for marketing agrobiodiversity in Texas. Thanks, Kem.
