Forests & trees

Nibbles: Mulberry, Vegetable consumption, Banana peel, Timber

Mulberries preserved twice, in the Pamirs and with a Slow Food Presidium. Kudos to Bioversity.
Gardeners eat more veggies, but not fruit. Press release and paper.
Banana peels concentrate heavy metals. Article and paper.
Where tropical timber goes. GOOD Infographic.

Mead, part 4. You can find 1-3 yourselves.
Plant genetic resources key to food security. The Jakarta Post gets it.
Long, complex post from ILRI on zoonoses; diseases that infect people and animals.
What are all the flowers for? The Provincial Agricultural Chamber of East Flanders seeks answers. h/t PAR.
Wanna do a post-doc on Comprehensive modelling of agro-biodiversity in relation to seed exchange networks?
Sacred groves threatened, by Times of India.
Fabulous botanical posters, many featuring useful species, and all useful information. Of course tomatoes are fruits.
I meant to write in detail about how Untapped crop data from Africa predicts corn peril if temperatures rise, but you know, life intervened.

Buckwheat yields boosted by diversity in nearby forests.
Date (press) with the past, in Qatar.
Sustainable Intensification: Increasing Productivity in African Food and Agricultural Systems. A bit steep at GBP65 for 30 papers; we’ll be reading and sharing what we find.
Apples, endangered? Well, yes.
What’s so good about geographical indications anyway?

Dave’s Garden does the apple forests of Almaty.
Agave nectar sweetens the prospects of Otomi women in Mexico.
Rhizowen investigates silverweed while taxonomists slug it out: Potentilla anserina or Argentina anserina?
Just what the urban poultryperson needs: a hotel for chickens.
National Gene Bank of Egypt website untouched.
A diplomat visit’s Cameroon’s Cornice Agro Pastorale, and is impressed.
Tackling climate change benefits health … and vice versa.
Almost certainly more than you needed to know about Palm Oil palm.

Feeding the world with breadfruit.
Feeding the world with ngali nut. Well, the Solomons.
Feeding the world with sticky rice. Well, Laos.
Threatened forest hotspots mapped, and discussed. Why is it we haven’t done this for agrobiodiversity?
Man takes best friend to grave, old and very old.