I really hate to be a cynical old sourpuss, ((No you don’t. Ed.)) but I suspect the most interesting thing about today’s High Level Round Table on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at FAO ((Which, incidentally, is on at the same time as the International Symposium on “Food and nutrition security: food-based approaches for improving diets and raising levels of nutrition.” Well, maybe it’s deliberate.)) may well be the display of Italian fruit diversity put on by the Centro di Ricerca per la Frutticoltura.
Nibbles: Maasai, Arbutus, Yak, China, USA
- ILRI video on helping herders with that climate change thing.
- Nutritional composition of Strawberry tree fruits.
- The genetic history of the yak.
- Chinese food archaeology: noodles and fruits.
- Colonial food in early America.
Nibbles: Pavlovsk, Pavlovsk, Food security, Photography, Satoyama, Toxins, Aussie genebanks
- Legal niceties may help save Pavlovsk Experiment Station …
- … which says its cherries are doing just fine, thank you. Jeremy hard at work.
- Ecosystem Services and Food Security. One for later.
- Kew’s Garden Photographer competition closes soon. Surprise everyone, submit something edible.
- Satoyama Initiative explained.
- On top of everything else, climate change may lead to higher toxin levels in crops.
- Latest on the restructuring of Australia’s genebanks.
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: Grass roots fruit
- One pathetic nibble today, but it is tasty: Fruit-full schools in the UK.