Brainfood: Chestnut restoration, Zoo legislation, Millet landraces, Cassava in Congo, Agroforestry in Philippines, Baobab (again), Silvopastoral system taxonomy

Nibbles: Forests and agriculture, Seed collecting, Banana book, Fermentation, Cucumber history, Myrrh, Farm systems, Dog genetics, Chocolate wars

  • Seven forest myths exposed. And more on the work debunking one of them. Yeah I know we already Nibbled it, get over it.
  • And you know what, here’s another one we already Nibbled, on collecting seeds in Central Asia. But I just read it again in the hardcopy version and it’s really cool and I like seeing people I know in funny shorts. Incidentally, the dead tree version has a link to Vaviblog that is unaccountably missing online.
  • Will no one buy me this fabulous banana book? (Not if you keep being rude to your reader. Ed.)
  • Second installment of that we-farm-because-we-like-beer thing. I’m not sure about the theory, but I like the way this guy writes. Yes, it’s a little look at me, look at me. But sometimes you need that.
  • Tales of the cucumber. Does anyone remember if we blogged about this paper?
  • More to myrrh than meets the eye. And more than most folk need to know.
  • Oxford boffins say a pox on both your houses: “environmentally friendly” farms better than conventional and organic.
  • National Geographic tackles the dog. Amazingly, all the photos are of, ahem, dogs.
  • What’s with all this stuff about cacao lately? Has someone sequenced another variety or something?

Nibbles: Programme evaluation, Slash-and-burn, Goat accents, Share herbaria, ITPGRFA communications, Fish talk, Archaeobrewing

Brainfood: Chicken domestication, Financial crisis and conservation, Cucurbit domestication, Tamarind future, Biofortification via bacteria, Cowpea nutritional composition, Roman bottlegourd, Noug, Rice blast diversity, Pearl millet domestication, Cacao genotyping, Organic ag, Marcela, In situ vs ex situ, Artocarpus roots