- Our friends at CIAT showcase our friend Colin showcasing crop wild relatives.
- The latest from Olivier De Schutter on agroecology.
- How to identify and nurture those elusive agricultural entrepreneurs.
- So that they can help you with tree domestication, for example?
- Pigs in ancient Egypt.
- Is the whole local food thing being taken too far?
Nibbles: European diversity, Cassava bugs, Livestock funding, Malnutrition
- Genetic diversity in European men and one of the organisms they exploit. And another.
- CIAT cassava entomologist rings warning bell.
- ILRI boffins point out why they don’t have enough money. Yeah, but what’s to be done about it?
- Malnutrition in Kenya and Guatemala. Are school gardens an/the answer? FAO thinks so.
Brainfood: Barley genes, Stability & Diversity, Access & Benefit Sharing,
- Analysis of >1000 single nucleotide polymorphisms in geographically matched samples of landrace and wild barley indicates secondary contact and chromosome-level differences in diversity around domestication genes. They’ve been exchanging genes! Oh, and the site of domestication may be further south.
- Identifying population- and community-level mechanisms of diversity–stability relationships in experimental grasslands. Stability depends on a few dominant species that are out of sync with one another.
- Effective governance of access and benefit-sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity. Identifies six critical factors that determine the effectiveness of ABS governance.
- Diversity and abundance of arthropods in subtropical rice growing areas in the Brazilian south. They’re abundant! And diverse!
Nibbles: Hogwash, Onion, Herbal medicine, Coconuts
- Harry Potter upsets tree expert shock. Here’s the video.
- Botany, salad and Allium cepa.. (NB Satire.)
- Out of the Archives – Researching Herbal Medicine Then and Now. Seminar, 26 October 2011; details here.
- Coconuts: not indigenous, but quite at home nevertheless. Scientific American investigates coconut evolution and dispersal.
A day in the life of archaeologists
Today is Day of Archaeology 2011 and a whole bunch of archaeologists are going to tell you about their day using social media. I bet many of them are digging up the remains of farming communities and studying the origins of agriculture. A great idea. How about A Day in the Life of a Genebanker next? Via.