Forests & trees

Nibbles: Buckwheat, Dates, Book, Apples, Geographical indications

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.

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.