Nibbles: Agrobiodiversity, Mexican food, Benin chickens, Tylosema chemistry, Wild coffee

  • Do my eyes deceive me? Exhortation not to forget farms during biodiversity festivities.
  • Edible Geography does Mexico City. Oh to be in DF on the 9th.
  • What do Benin farmers want out of their chickens? Clue: it wont be easy.
  • Is marama bean the next big thing? Probably not, but check it out anyway.
  • New Biosphere Reserve protects wild coffee.
  • Uber-blogger Tom Barnett tackles sweet potato breeding. Sweet potato wins.

Nibbles: Rust, Old rice, More old rice, Sticky rice, Mesoamerican balls, Prioritization, Legumes

  • Rust boffins meet in St Petersburg. Good luck to them: sounds like they’ll need it.
  • Did 3000-year-old rice really sprout in Vietnam? Nah.
  • Indian farmers queue up for old rice seeds. Not old as in the Vietnam case above though.
  • And more rice. Did the Chinese really use the sticky kind in mortar 1500 years ago? Yep.
  • More ancient technology. This time Mayan rubber.
  • “…a major leap forward in species-area relationship fitting…”: where will future habitat loss wreak the most havoc on plant species? And on crop wild relatives?
  • The pulses of Africa. Well, a couple of them.

Nibbles: Hunter gatherers, Amaranthus and corn in Mexico, Protected areas and poverty, African ag, Pollan, Aquaculture in Laos, Range, Rainforest

Nibbles: Sorghum and rice and climate change, Pacific agrobiodiversity today and yesterday, Japanese microbiota, Wolf domestication, Organic and fungi, Crop wild relatives, Bees, Hunger, Silk