Fruits and nuts

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.

Apple diversity on display at Terra Madre.
A drought-resistant sorghum for Karamoja. Read the script of a radio programme.
CIAT advises Ugandan farmers: produce what you can sell, don’t sell what you can produce. Hmmmn.
Local cow breeds and Protected Designation of Origin cheeses. There’s a conclusion here struggling to emerge, but I can’t recognize it. Help me.
CABI pushes for crop diversification. Get in line!
Where giant pumpkins come from.
Nutritionists should get to grips with human diversity.
2nd State of the World’s PGRFA launched by FAO to much fanfare. And usual incorrect figures on genetic erosion. Oh I give up.

System of Rice Intensification (SRi) works in Panama. Yields up 47%, water down 86%.
28 great apples available in New York.
Neem tree provenance trials; results from Nepal.
Wired does Svalbard. Cool squared?

PhD student from East Africa wanted to study greenhouse gases, biochar and other cool stuff.
Weevils eat half the cowpea harvest. Solution in the bag.
Ecuadorian chocolate experts visit the World Bank. Did they bring samples?
Lots of ecdysteroids in quinoa. Not clear to me if this is good or bad.
Yes, Malagasy rice is different.
Evaluating a Dang Rasimi jackfruit. Looks pretty good to me.
Crop wild relatives in genebanks help with drought tolerance in wheat.
Meta-paper on livelihoods diversity in rice-wheat-livestock systems Indo-Gangetic Plains has no room for varietal diversity in rice-wheat.

More on that thing about how the Amazon was once pullulating with people. And why.
Why conserve livestock genetic resources. And one possible way to do it.
The American people are bringing back the American chestnut.
COP-watchers, something to amuse yourselves with if things get dull.
Even Neanderthals understood the benefits of a diverse diet. Though not, perhaps, of jewellery.