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Nibbles: Farmers’ Rights, Seed Breeder, Genebanks, Pigeon Pea, Cheese

Farmer? Know your rights.
If you like long unexpurgated interviews, you like this one with organic breeder John Navazio. h/t Bishop.
Cropgenebankknowledgebase’s blog seeks feedback. Let ’em have it.
What is Crop Genebank Knowledge Base? A presentation reveals all.
ICRISAT set to release three new hybrid pigeon pea varieties.
“Cheese has an almost limitless variety. Thank goodness.“

We did it here first, I think, but Edible Geography has definitely done it better.

Did you know the Encyclopedia of Life does crop wild relatives?
Smallholders with mixed crop and livestock systems are the key to it all. My mother-in-law says: I agree.
Deforestation is bad for the health.
2010 Biodiversity Indicator Partnership launches National Biodiversity Indicators Portal.
Aussies trial a new, secret orange spud. Yeah I can really see that being a huge success.
The McItaly kerfuffle rumbles on. Much like your stomach after you’ve eaten one.
The “rewilding” kerfuffle rumbles on. Much like those herds of wildebeest roaming majestically across the Great Plains.
Rewilding an ancient pre-Hispanic drink. Ooops, I guess that should be reviving.

Is mole… “an ingenious Mexican version of curry, or is curry a Hindu adaptation of a Mexican sauce?”

Amid all the hype about Michelle Obama’s blitz on child obesity, USDA has come out with an interactive Food Environment Atlas, which has been much commented on in the blogosphere. Here’s what the distribution of fast food restaurants in the US looks like:

Coincidentally, Pete at PeteSearch has mined Facebook profile data and come up with this visualization of the connections among users:

Is it me, or there a coincidence between the maps? Here’s one of the things Pete says about the Nomadic West:

Starbucks is almost always the top fan page, maybe to help people stay awake on all those long car trips they must be making?

Geography is destiny?