- BBC pounces on CCAFS report previously trumpeted by Bioversity. Bottom line: adaptation may mean changing crops. Bottom bottom line: Will they have enough diversity?
- PGR Secure newsletter is out.
- GCARD2 rumbles on.
- The ankole cow is threatened. What, still?
- Tracking ash dieback. And since we’re talking gadgets…
- Old cacao trees being replaced in Nigeria. No word on what’s happening to the diversity they represent. Maybe it’s ex situ already? Maybe it’s not significant? I dunno, I would just like to be told.
- Slow Food documents African foods. Thankfully no ugali.
- Aussies put together cool bean collection.
Nibbles: Wasabi, Plant name checker, Finding birds, GFAR videos, Sweet potato pap, Taro genebank
- Up to their knees in wasabi. And, loving it.
- iPlant Collaborative’s Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) ver. 3.0 expands its coverage.
- Marine bird e-Atlas goes live. Meah.
- GFAR tweets about old videos. Must be a reason for it.
- Podcast on using sweet potatoes in baby food. Might well come in useful more generally.
- My friend Valerie and former employer SPC get a namecheck in story about world’s largest taro genebank.
Nibbles: Online portals, Hops, EU craziness, Turfgrass breeder, Seed rental, Swaminatham, CG genebanks
- Do you really need that portal?
- Brits say local hops are best. And who am I to argue?
- Weird statement on genetic resources from EU Commission. Clarifications gladly received.
- Even turfgrass has its heroes.
- Want to rent some seeds?
- A reminder from someone who should know that crops have biodiversity too.
- CGIAR Consortium talks up its crown jewels.
Nibbles: Future diets, Trust Annual Report, Vermiculture, Daisies not dope
- Diets of 2062 will be as unfamiliar to us as our diets are to our grandparents.
- What the Global Crop Diversity Trust did in 2011.
- Big time worm farming.
- Alberta dope cops lousy botanists.
Nibbles: Meta-blogging, NUS scholarships, Insects & plant diversity, Commons, Trees and diet, Thyme, ABS
- Why they blog. At the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog that is. Can’t help thinking that the media should perhaps be alerted.
- Scholarships available at the Crops for the Future Research Centre.
- Yes, ok EurekAlert!, we get it , insects are really important to plant diversity.
- Yes, ok policy wonks, we get it, it’s really useful to see plant genetic resources as global commons.
- More tree cover means more diverse diet in Africa.
- Thyme, gentlemen, please.
- FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Ad Hoc Technical Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing for Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture debates, well, access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources for food and agriculture. In Svalbard, of all places.