- Bill funds Africa soil map.
- Healthy foods. Pace the blogger, I could probably get all of them in Nairobi.
- First Irish farmers came and went.
- Pssst! Wanna start your own Farmers’ Market?
- Tea.
- The African Crop Science Society has a website.
- Coconut: the lazy man’s crop. Thousands of women batter down Sun Star’s doors.
Nibbles: Bees, Bourbon, Cattle, Ug99, Horses, Neanderthal, Bear, Organic, Flowers
- Bees? We don’t need no stinkin’ bees.
- “…a distinct product of America…”
- Friesians? We don’t need no stinkin’ Friesians.
- Kenya tests for Ug99 resistance.
- Iceland’s horses walk funny.
- Neanderthals ate snails.
- Bear meat? We don’t need no stinkin’ bear meat.
- Organic agriculture in China gets NPR treatment, survives.
- Rice? We don’t need no stinkin’ rice.
Nibbles: Foodways, Ecosystem services, Subsistence, Genebank
- Cajun squirrel crisps, anyone? Jeremy comments: “Burgoo that for a laugh”.
- An Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets? In the USDA? Pinch me!
- “In 2009 my plan is to grow a lot of things, like millet, groundnuts and sorghum, but my energy is waning.”
- “Noah’s Bin, will be the fourth largest of its kind in the world.” In Turkey, apparently.
Videos on traditional food systems
The Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE) based in McGill University, Canada, responded to requests from indigenous leaders from around the world to help stop loss of traditional food system knowledge with research and community-driven activities that bridge the generation.
This series of videos presents highlights from 12 indigenous community areas in 9 countries, and is intended to con tribute to the evidence base used to make global policies to protect Indigenous Peoples’ food resources and promote good health.
Thanks to Lois Englberger for the tip.
Traditional African vegetables hit the mainstream
It’s not really all that long since we brought together researchers on that overlooked portion of African agrobiodiversity that is its traditional vegetables for one of the first ever times. I wonder how many of us ever thought that in little more that 10 years we would be able to buy terere and managu and the like wrapped in plastic and barcoded in supermarkets in Kenya:
Or indeed buy nicely packaged and labelled seed from small agricultural suppliers in places like Limuru:
Preparation is time-consuming and fiddly, sure:
But the taste and nutrients are worth it, as more and more people are finding out. We had some Amaranthus for Christmas lunch, from grandma’s shamba. Can’t get much more mainstream than that.