Fruits and nuts

Nibbles: Apples, Agave, Argentina, Araucanas, Egypt, Agro Pastorale, Add-on benefits, Oil Palm

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.

AVRDC’s 30th International Vegetable Training Course Vegetables: From Seed to Table and Beyond.
Cameron Peace’s excellent presentation on genomics and fruit genebanks at the recent PAG symposium organized by NPGS staff Chris Richards (Ft. Collins) and Clare Coyne (Pullman).
Kew’s latest Samara newsletter does crop wild relatives.
Exploring the need for specific measures for access and benefit-sharing of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture. Results of a workshop.

I don’t know about you, but I’m surprised when, on the same day mind you, the Costa Rica News has a piece about a new citrus genebank at CATIE and Balkans.com an article about the genetic relationship between Turkish and Hungarian apricot cultivars. Pleasantly surprised.