- 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.
Nibbles: Women, Old Crops, New Crops, Forests, Pavlovsk
- Women and livestock.
- Women are not the solution.
- Hang on, sorry. Women are the solution.
- Traditional crops help improve agricultural sustainability, says scientist.
- Biofortification “is exactly what we need to … improve global health,” says Deputy Coordinator for Development at Feed the Future.
- Grist’s “good news for trees” roundup of 2010.
- Russie : menace sur le jardin d’Eden – that’s Pavlovsk for non francophones — a TV report.
Nibbles: Livestock methane, Afromontane medicinal tree, Afromontane bananas, Acacia
- How to get livestock to burp less? Spice their food.
- Prunus africana connections between E and W Africa.
- And more from the E African highlands: this time about bananas and drought.
- Making money out of gum arabic in Mauritania.
Nibbles: Forest management, Sahelian trees, Biofortification blogging
- Combining traditional and scientific knowledge on an invasive species to manage forests.
- Variation in dryland trees: Balanites and Adansonia.
- Roundup of biofortification bloggers.
Nibbles: CBD COP, Biofortification, Foodie potatoes, Dates date, Reintroductions, Quercus, Nomenclature, Maize, P, Agroforestry, Weeds, VIR, Lactose intolerance, Yersinia
- Bioversity DG “jubilant” at Nagoya Protocol.
- A video plug for the biofortification conference.
- Native potatoes on foodie agenda.
- A date palm festival. In the US.
- The success of species introductions.
- Italian acorn cakes deconstructed. I’m told the people able to recognize these sweet acorns are few and old.
- Calling times on biological names. Whoa!
- Saving heirloom mielies.
- What the heck is happening with phosphorus anyway?
- Panamanian farmers don’t like to grow (some) native trees on their farms because of slow growth rates.
- Eating medieval weeds.
- Latest from Pavlovsk. I have no idea what’s going on anymore.
- Lactase persistence due to cold.
- Genetics says plague came from China.