History

Nibbles: Impact evaluation reviews, Coffee podcast, Pretty on sustainable intensification, Patient capital, Searching for species names, Searching in general, Palestinian agriculture, Korean Neolithic, Mesquite in Africa, CIMMYT-China, Banana trade, UK plant science, Breadfruit, Weed, Beans in Mexico, Macadamia, Organic Cali

How to do impact evaluation. Required reading.
Podcast on the history of coffee from Linn. Soc. Required listening.
How to intensify agriculture sustainably. Meah.
It may well involve patient capital though.
This thing will look for all the species names in a piece of text or website. Bound to come in useful one of these days.
How to use Google properly. And a vaguely agricultural quiz to see if you’ve been listening in class.
Protecting ancient irrigation system on the West Bank.
And finding the oldest agricultural site in East Asia.
The good and bad side of Prosopis in Africa.
CIMMYT in China.
The banana as a weapon.
Touring UK plant science sites.
Mapping breadfruit to save the world.
“Over 78 million Europeans (15–64 years) have tried cannabis…” Purely medicinal purposes, man.
“We wanted to see how farmers are reacting to this global climate change…” Bean farmers, not cannabis farmers.
If you’re at the Noosa Botanic Gardens, Cooroy, you can see rare macadamias. Yeah but can you smoke ’em?
Organic seed systems in California. No, not cannabis, settle down.

My friend Zac bags a well-deserved award.
Agricultural diversity in the Middle Ages: squirrels and cotton. And there’s probably more where those came from…
Keeping score on agricultural research spending.
Fermentables interview.
What does this climate-smart agriculture look like anyway?
And do they ever need it in the American midwest.
And what in blazes is candlenut?
A tool for documenting endangered languages. Maybe endangered landraces or crops one day too…
Documented: One Sri Lankan farmer’s thoughts on sustainable agriculture.
Not to mention the plusses and minuses of livestock — straight from the horse’s mouth.
And the myth that will not die: King Tut’s peas alive and thriving. Kudos to Jackson Holtz, a properly skeptical reporter.

Slate puts a fork in, well, the fork.
Gotta love the Prairies.
Mysterious Cattle Deaths Caused by GMO Grass: not GMO, not particularly mysterious.
Gotta love the Spice Islands.
How scientists can extract impact from their ~~navel-gazing~~ research.
Gotta love online mapping platforms.
Another journal starts a blog.
Horses in agriculture, and history.
Gotta love za’tar. It’s about thyme.
Sweeter than sugar. Mauritius goes for fair trade and diversification.
Dying for batik.

What is the best beef in Europe?
When was the first yoghurt of the Neolithic?
How do you measure smallholder resilience? Or vulnerability, for that matter…
How does this Kenyan seed story differ from this Malian one?
How do you address iron deficiency in Rwanda?
What’s the value of a genebank?
There’s a downside to plant-derived smoke?
So what’s the latest paradigm shift on that ancient-people-in-the-Amazon thing?
How are the Spanish people coping with the crisis?
How come those transcribed podcasting, medal winning conservationists still don’t get it?
What are Ethiopians doing in Amazonia?