Fruits and nuts

Nibbles: Sprouts, Mice, Prices, Prices, Prices, Prices, Gooseberry, Fruits, Fruits, Subsidies, Climate change, Fruits again, Culture, Irrigation

Brussels sprout variety lost and found in Wales. Alas, it’s an F1. Start breeding now.
Mice destroying Australian sorghum. Pied Piper unavailable for comment.
Impact of prices in Ethiopia.
Impact of prices in Kenya.
Impact of prices in Latin America.
Biofuels not to blame for food price rises. Fatuous, Jeremy comments.
Uttar Pradesh State Biodiversity Board steps in to save rare Indian gooseberry. Is this it? Doesn’t seem rare.
Pitaya explained. Check out the links too.
“Picture it, an orange grape!” No thanks.
The Economist on the CAP. Money quote: …if Europeans want to produce food in a special region or way, â€œlet them label it, and see if the market will pay for it.â€
Speaking of which. British wine industry in trouble. You heard me.
Other fruits not doing well either. Via.
Royal Ploughing Ceremony goes well in Cambodia. That’s all right then.
On the other hand, there may be something to this traditional knowledge stuff after all.

Blogger waxes lyrical about African mushrooms.
Nigeria’s cacao tree need replanting. Will they be? And if so, which varieties will be used? And will they be grown organically?
Arabidopsis followed farmers into Europe.
“With the kiwi, there is adventure.“

Tangled Bank 105 is up. Ag-related: safe fugu bred, and canine genetics. Down boy.
Gene Expression blogs Banana (the book). Interesting comments too.
Indian women make films to protect biodiversity. P’raps they’ll enter our next competition?
US to scale back corn-for-booze subsidy by whopping 12%?
Sardinian saffronÂ to be protected.

AGFAX Radio was at the recent Arusha meeting on neglected crops and has a whole bunch of interviews online (with transcripts):

Don’t forget the follow-up e-conference is still on.