Forests & trees

Nibbles: Rust, Old rice, More old rice, Sticky rice, Mesoamerican balls, Prioritization, Legumes

Rust boffins meet in St Petersburg. Good luck to them: sounds like they’ll need it.
Did 3000-year-old rice really sprout in Vietnam? Nah.
Indian farmers queue up for old rice seeds. Not old as in the Vietnam case above though.
And more rice. Did the Chinese really use the sticky kind in mortar 1500 years ago? Yep.
More ancient technology. This time Mayan rubber.
“…a major leap forward in species-area relationship fitting…”: where will future habitat loss wreak the most havoc on plant species? And on crop wild relatives?
The pulses of Africa. Well, a couple of them.

Cacao beer. What’s not to like?
CABI blog deconstructs pesticidal plants.
Worldwatch blog on how “livestock can improve food security and preserve and rebuild communities.”
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park tries to diversify.

Going nuts in Kyrgyzstan. Ok, sorry, that should read growing. And something similar from Brazil.
And the bad Ug99 news just keeps on coming. When is wheat gonna catch a break?
The Campesino a Campesino Pollinator Project. I just love that title.
Study says “drought tolerant maize will greatly benefit African farmers.” Still no cure for cancer.
Araticum, Buriti, Pequi, Cagaita, Gueroba, Babassu, Baru: Which one is the next kiwi?

Food sovereignty tours. I probably shouldn’t, but I like this idea.
Why it is difficult to make cheese from camel milk.
Storing sweet potatoes the indigenous way.
We need traditional seeds to adapt to climate change. Yes, sure, but it ain’t so easy. Also need other tings, surely.
Eucalypts in Kenya: Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Ask my mother-in-law.