- Money for AnGR conservation up for grabs.
- 8th International Food Data Conference: Biodiversity and Sustainable Diets is taking place September 14-17, 2011 at NBI Conference Centre, Norwich, UK.
- So how are we doing with that MDG1?
- More on CABI’s Plantwise. I just hope most of it will be free. They have a blog, natch.
- CIMMYT drought-tolerant maize varieties featured in blog post. I’ll alert the media. No, wait. Seems like only 60% of farmers in Kenya are willing to pay for these varieties anyway.
- No extension workers? No problem.
- A tasty dish of Ugandan grasshoppers. Always a good subject for a subtly xenophobic CNN phtoto feature.
- Cows not so bad after all?
Bringing back local foods in Bolivia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Z7CcFa6_cIn El Alto, Bolivia, Heifer International supported a series of workshops at eight local schools about healthy food made with traditional, local ingredients. The families who attended these workshops then conducted similar workshops in other schools, and later organized a street fair to raise awareness of the importance of local foods.
If you share money, you have half of the money; if you share bread, you have half of the bread; if you share knowledge, you have twice as much!
The wonder of maize in images
GastronomÃa Hispanica has a great set of photos on its Facebook page on the “miracle of maize.” 1 Here’s a totally inadequate teaser. Go and friend them.
Nibbles: Goats, Nordic food, Roman beer, Mopani worms, South Sudan
- So apparently there’s a British Goat Society.
- More on that Nordic Food Lab. Note connection to NordGen.
- Beer Chicks do Rome artisanals. So much one could say about this.
- Mopani worms in London. Best place for them.
- South Sudan’s seed system.
Nibbles: Breeding, Frankincense and myrrh, Roman pills, Chinese botanic garden, NPGS, Green red bush tea, Old banyan, Terroir, Botanic gardens and invaders, AnGR
- National Organic Coalition suggests USDA’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture separate conventional and participatory breeding from anything involving DNA in considering projects for support.
- Second-guessing the Three Wise Men.
- Yet more on attempts to deconstruct ancient Roman medicines using DNA from tablets found in a shipwreck. Real Indiana Jones stuff.
- Botanic garden and genebank for drought-resistant plants to be established “in Asia’s largest wild fruit forest.” That would be in China. I really don’t know what to make of this. Really need to find out more. But why am I talking to myself?
- Brown (rice) is beautiful.
- Feedback from a genebank user. Kinda.
- Rooibos gets itself certified.
- The oldest cultivated tree on record.
- The taste of Massachusetts.
- “…strongly conservation-minded botanic gardens appear to be in the minority.” Easy, tiger. Will that new one in China (see above) feature in this minority?
- ILRI on an Aussie TV program on conserving local livestock breeds in Africa.