Forests & trees

Nibbles: Evergreen Agriculture, Traditional Knowledge

Blogposts from Durban I: Evergreen Agriculture for all
Blogposts from Durban II: Meteorologists, traditional and modern.
And the quote of the day, yesterday: “There is no word in English for the Irish word that translates, roughly, as ubuntu.”

Sweet potato yoghurt? Yeah, ok, why not.
Decreasing coffee production in Kenya can reduce tree abundance and richness on farm, but increasing production will lead to more trees but not necessarily more diversity. No, I don’t get it either, but have a look at the data yourself and try to figure it out. There’s plenty of it in this presentation.
Love of hot peppers as benign masochism. Myself I think it’s a sexual selection cue.

Taiwan should establish a national seed bank. It says here. But will it be a genebank?
Agroforestry in the USA and in the ancient Maya lands.

After yesterday’s thing on gum arabic, CIFOR’s blogger weighs in on frankincense and myrrh. Gums and resins renaissance, anyone?
VoA on the ITPGRFA, with interview goodness.
Soy sauce in bullet points.
A Spanish food historian’s deconstruction of the Mediterranean diet deconstructed by Rachel Laudan.
Fish in paddies: here comes the science.
Côte d’Ivoire to revive cacao cultivation. By building a research centre?
Pleasant, cultured and not so short foray into the history of the sugar industry in Kenya and Mauritius.
You say sweet potato. I say yam.
You say yam, so does Rhizowen, and yet … he’s talking about neither Ipomoea nor Manihot.
Urban agriculture thriving in DR Congo.

Interview with the Secretary-General of Gum Arabic Council. In other news, there’s a Gum Arabic Council.
Gosh, is that really all there is today?
Ah yes, here’s something more, sago cultivation in Indonesia.
And the ongoing search for the world’s hottest chilli pepper.
Neil’s got apples in Himal Pradesh, an enriching response to climate change.