- Bioversity promotes a fund-raiser for forgotten fruit trees.
- Seed crisis in Bangladesh. It’s complicated. Really complicated.
- Belatedly, mirthful report on mead.
- “…during the advent of agriculture … early farmers may have at first come together in communal activities, prior to congregating in villages.”
- USDA’s fruit genebank at Corvallis in the news.
Nibbles: Genebanks, PNG Forests, Peruvian potatoes, Haitian extension, Mungbeans
- The Santa Barbara Independent does genebanks. You heard me.
- Papua New Guinea suspends Special Agricultural and Business Leases. Maybe they’ll now use the land for special agriculture and business?
- Native Peruvian potato chips prized in Europe (Spanish).
- US opens new centre to train Haitian farmers. Because, y’know, they’ve done such a fine job in the past.
- Australia taps World Vegetable Center for mungbean genes.
Nibbles: Red rice, Feed the Future, Heat, GM seed mixtures, Sorghum, Millet, Sturgeon, Vaccinium
- Anissa makes a meal of red rice from Western China eco-museum.
- Want to influence the US Feed the Future “global hunger and food security initiative”? Course you do.
- Peak heat and maize yields in the US. Bear it in mind when you read today’s flurry of interest in a new study from David Lobell et al.
- Seed mixtures not a good idea? Say it isn’t so!
- $4 million to continue development of biofortified sorghum.
- Cooking up a storm, millets edition.
- They’ve outlasted the dinosaurs, but they still need help.
- USDA gets blue in the face about blueberries.
Nibbles: Coffee, British orchards, Wild foraging, African agriculture, Sesame, Taro wine, African beer, Brazilian pastures, Hemp
- First of all, I need a cup of coffee.
- Stop Press: Britain’s orchards neglected. Prince Charles to be called in to help?
- Eating the wild, in San Francisco and San Diego.
- IFAD on what African farmers need: infrastructure, insurance, investment. Apparently.
- Harvesting sesame in Greece: The video.
- Filipinos make wine from Hawaiian traditional food. Strange the Hawaiians hadn’t thought of that. But perhaps they did.
- And while we’re on the subject of booze…
- Destroying the Pantanal and Cerrado in a sustainable manner.
- Hey, it’s Hemp History Week! And you know how to celebrate that, don’t you.
Nibbles: Andean potatoes, Nepal, Geraniol, Agroforestry
- Papas got a brand new bag — starring alongside Paul McCartney. Here’s the English.
- Duff commercial seeds a disaster for Nepalese farmers. As our friend Bhuwon said, “please do not give up your local varieties and traditional knowledge yet”.
- How to come up smelling of roses — eat a new kind of confectionary.
- Combining high biodiversity with high yields in tropical agroforests. Ought to be (and will be) Brainfood, but for now, anyone have any time to write this up for us?