Cooking

Nibbles: Livestock, CWR, Extremophiles, Museum exhibits

How livestock help feed the world.
The latest CWR newsletter from PGR Secure.
“…humans have inadvertently been probing the environmental envelope of carbon-based life for thousands of years simply by experimenting with pickling, salting, smoking, and refrigeration.”
A better way for museums to preserve rice plants. In other news, museums interested in preserving rice plants.

And Kenya’s best agriculture blog is…Tracking The Scent! Congrats Kio Wachira!
Drinking beer as an agricultural act.
CRP4 needs a new name.
Meanwhile, here’s another example of CGIAR centres working together. Not clear if it’s in a CRP, though, and if so what it is called.
Horse domesticated once, but with occasional restocking.

Ruth deconstructs her local tomatoes.
New Mexico State University reaches out to CATIE’s genebank.
Montana gets a genebank.
Long Cymie Payne UBerkeley lecture on international law and biodiversity.
Milking the data.
Speaking of milk, indigenous lassi probiotics isolated, sequenced and deposited in genebank.

40 years of AVRDC celebrated. Lots more stuff on vegetables below, so stick around if that grabbed you.
Breeding with farmers, an ICARDA manual. Are there any examples with vegetables, I wonder?
Let’s Go Local! See the ABC piece before it disappears from the front page. But it’s not just karat bananas that you need, of course.
Going local in Philippines too. And India for that matter. And, ahem, Arkansas. Oh and Amazonia.
Another use for baobab. I feel a factsheet coming on.
And here are some utterly different fruits.
Talking AnGR in Latin America.
GIFT tilapia in India! Look it up, we did a Brainfood on it.
A Belgian milestone. Put out more flags.
Is it Cinco de Mayo yet? Well, break out the tequila anyway.
Is it World Donkey Day yet?
“Farmer associations hope TME 419 will soon spread across the whole country.” That would be a fancy new cassava in DRC. Anybody worried about that at all?
Plant diversity key to zzzzzzzzzz…
Well this will wake you up.