- Innovations for sustainable food systems: genebanks are in there but frankly I find the whole thing a bit problematic. Just gonna leave that there. Feel free to comment here.
- Colin Khoury’s backstory. Also some CWR.
- The fight against pathogens. Of plants, settle down.
- Better Napier grass is good for everyone. Including the cows. But wait, “…[i]t doesn’t really matter which grass…”
- Phenome2020 recapped.
Nibbles: Columella, Thomas Bowrey, Dreamtime, Oz seedbank, Kenya sweetpotato, Dalla Ragione, Apple hunter, Cydonia, Caribbean nutmeg, Wheat synthetics, ICARDA forages, Land cover map
- Recreating Roman wine. It’s the tar, stupid.
- Decolonizing weed.
- Ancient Aboriginal foraging and cooking was quite something.
- The National Seed Bank at the Australian National Botanic Garden makes the news. See what I did there?
- So does sweetpotato in Kenya.
- Turning to art to find lost fruit varieties in Italy.
- Remembering Lee Calhoun of North American Fruit Explorers.
- Bringing back the quince. That’s the fruit trifecta.
- Might as well bring nutmeg back too.
- CIMMYT’s synthetic hexaploid wheat programme explained in a PowerPoint.
- Report on screening ICARDA’s wild forages.
- Nerd out with cool land cover map in Google Earth Engine. Mash up with above, for example?
Open sesame
Go on, follow the largest ever deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. There’s a hashtag, of course there is: #SeedVault2020.
You know you want to.
LATER: And, it’s a wrap!
https://twitter.com/NordGen/status/1232978684421734402
Nibbles: Medieval Iceland, Lebanese wine, Yemeni coffee, Ghana cowpea, SeedShare, Roman hamburger
- Ag diversification was a thing even in medieval Iceland.
- Not to mention contemporary Lebanon.
- Dumping qat for coffee is the good news we all wanted to hear. Jeremy provides the context.
- Ghana gets some new cowpeas. I just think it’s cool that they made the news.
- The joys of seed saving: the backstory of SeedShare.
- Procuring a hamburger in ancient Rome. This is a great sub-Reddit, BTW.
Nibbles: Indian rice edition
- Odisha traditional rice varieties on display.
- Bringing back traditional rice varieties.
- Cricketer praises farmer for growing traditional rice varieties.