- CGIAR pushes ITPGRFA into Rio +20 limelight. ITPGRFA unavailable for comment.
- Recession or no recession, Samoan women’s group in Body Shop coconut oil deal.
- Pre-Columbian Amazon not densely inhabited after all. Just wake me up when they sort this out.
- Ok, where do I get my hands on some Moringa leaves?
Nibbles: Gathering, Tubers, Quinoa, Africa-American heirlooms, Deforestation
- Edible weeds, anyone?
- Nope, Slate says the answer is tubers. And they may have a point.
- But Evo Morales thinks it’s quinoa.
- Meanwhile, Ms. Kimble cultivates her vegetable garden.
- And Luigi enticed by new mapping tool to explore deforestation on Sumatra.
Nibbles: Pests & Diseases, Cichorium, Agroforestry etc, Heritage oranges, Shepherds, ITPGRFA news
- Diversity protects against pests and diseases, especially when it is needed most.
- Amateur enthusiast cracks chicory biodiversity.
- Conservation Agriculture With Trees; it’s the new big thing in Africa.
- Saving the last orange grove in Orange County from destruction.
- Shepherds of the world; a slideshow from The Guardian.
- And — Oh Boy! — you can jump through some hoops to get a newsletter on the International Treaty of Plant Genetic Reso0urces for Food and Agriculture.
Nibbles: Big cheese, Perennials, Maize, Plant breeding, Tiny corn, Communicators, Traditional Foods, Forest peoples, Guar
- IFAD’s organic Moldovan cheese wins big.
- Advice for Rwandan coffee and banana farmers to cope with climate change.
- Advice from Mexico’s campesinos on how to cope with climate change.
- Do they – or you – need to participate in plant breeding? This toolkit could help.
- These folks don’t … From little corn plants, big efficiencies grow. I think.
- Newly trained press officers to support agriculture on Indian Ocean islands.
- Hurrah! A conference on traditional foods, with street food seminar accompaniment. h/t CFF.
- The diversity of forest peoples, united in their dependence on forests.
- Alternatives to guar: “Even though all the ingredients are acquired from food suppliers, the CleanStim fluid system should not be considered edible.”
Nibbles: Aquatic mapping, Biofortified millet, Indian agriculture, African agriculture, Restoration, Online flora, Farm Bill, Right to Food, Elk farming, Forestry fellowship, Breadfruit, Foods and climate change
- OBIS maps marine organisms. But does it include this data from China?
- Private sector delivers biofortified millet. But will it make it to the wiki for Indian agriculture?
- New paper by APRODEV and PELUM on why CAADP should follow IAASTD. Glossary not included. And more on African agriculture from Gates. Not like this, though.
- Millennium Seed Bank in ecosystem restoration. And a study on ecosystems that are actually going to require less restoration than others.
- Monsanto supports online world flora. What could possibly go wrong? Meanwhile, in the public sector…
- Olivier de Schutter’s recent Right to Food shpiel for IFPRI. LOTS of words. I guess you had to be there.
- Small-scale elk farming primer. Not as crazy as it sounds, but pretty crazy.
- And if you’re a young scientist, from sub-Saharan Africa, and interested in forest genetic resources, well, here’s a fine forestry fellowship opportunity.
- The Bounty Redux. The whole bringing-breadfruit-to-the Caribbean thing seems to be going more smoothly this time.
- Huffington slideshow on the world’s endangered foods.