Fruits and nuts

Nibbles: Coffee lupins, Supply and demand, ICT, Cacao, Malnutrition

Remember that lupin coffee? Mike H provides an update.
Complex and scary: Resources Research picks over the USDA’s supply and demand figures after the heat and drought.
USD1 million for ICT in East Africa. Hope they’ll be visiting us.
USDA finds ancient cacao variety at altitude in Peru; chocolatiers delighted.
“We’ve got a gap between evidence and policy.” Guess the field. No, really, I dare you. Venture a guess as to what he’s talking about here. Yep, could be anything.

Community veggie gardens in Cape Town.
BNSP? WTF?
AoB adds botanical picture search. Will nothing stop these guys? And meanwhile… Sheesh, is there something in the air today?
How can Pacific livestock adapt to climate change? And don’t say they should learn to swim.
How NOT to describe a durian.
The continuously imminent demise of the Chesapeake Bay oyster.
Plant breeders go on the rampage in Thailand.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall turns out not to be a made-up name. Pity.
Kenya’s agriculture increasingly depends on women. MIL unavailable for comment.
“…because our idea of “adding more” has shaped the way we treat micronutrient deficiencies through food fortification globally, trying to integrate this in China is turning out to be problematic.” I bet it is.
Montpellier G20 meeting looking for “effective and innovative research partnerships for development and better impact of research from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.” I hope they brought their pyjamas.

Mexicans can’t afford avocados.
“Vostok — delo tonkoe, Petrukha!“
New blog on crop wild relatives in the US, courtesy of our friend Colin.
Royal villa has nice garden shock.
“Three-quarters of date palm trees in Iraq right now … are of just one variety.”

This Pyrus calleryana tree, a wild relative of the pear, is now back at the World Trade Center, and has even survived Hurricane Irene. On this day, we salute it.