Photos of Frontier Culture Museum, including agrobiodiversity.
EU tells Romania to be nicer to pigs
Peasant Europe: one third of EU farm holdings are in Romania.
A maize tour
SIRGEALC over, Marleni, David and I headed for CIMMYT, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre. That’s in Texcoco, about an hour’s drive from the hotel where we were staying in Mexico City (or three hours, unfortunately, on the way back). It turned out to be something of a maize odyssey. I’ll tell the story in pictures.
When we got to Texcoco, it was too early for lunch, but that didn’t stop us spending some time in the market sampling the local cuisine, as the quesadillas there are famous. This lady certainly made us some great ones. Note the two types of maize she’s using.
Earliest use of cacao dated
Mesoamericans drank fermented cacao pulp 3000 years ago.
Timing agricultural transition
When did Bhutan go agricultural? Dr Putterman says 5500 BP.