- 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.
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.