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Nibbles: Conservation course history, Language and DNA, Entomophagy blog, IPBES help, Phenomics methods database, Sustainable Nestlé, Got other milk?, NCYC

University of Birmingham conservation course alumnus/a? This one’s for you.
Phonemes follow human genomes. Kinda. No word on crop and livestock genomes. Yet.
A whole blog on eating insects.
Interesting: “Each IPBES assessment must include reference citations to indigenous knowledge, and every review panel must include experts in this.”
Curated list of methods in Plant Phenotyping and Phenomics.
Nestlé’s sustainable agriculture guy visits CIAT, plants coconut, talks supply chains.
Camelcino, anyone?
UK yeast genebank reaches totally arbitrary milestone.

Our Hungry Planet: Agriculture, People and Food Security. Free online course from University of Reading.
What if people in country X ate the same diet as people in country Y?
The Man wants to fingerprint your stash.
Or maybe fragrantly hopped beer is your poison?
A new one on me: Conservatoire des Collections Végétales Spécialisées (CCVS).
All politics is local. All control of forestry enterprises ought to be.
Victoria takes to the poppy. Afghanistan unavailable for comment.
The small farmers of Paraguay holding back the flood of soy. Or trying to.
The promise — and curse — of CCN 51. And some context on the whole peak chocolate thing.
Wait, some people think Bhut Jolokia is a cool name?
The grapevine has gone viral. Millions of years ago.
Global Panel of Wise Agricultural People says to biofortify your crops.

Ok, now you have no excuse not to eat taro.
Do your bit to help pawpaws (Asimina triloba) go viral. No, wait, that didn’t come out right.
“Pica is an unexplainable food curiosity—the overwhelming desire to eat the inedible.” Or, as we say in my house, German food.
Tuscan seed journey.
Living off forest foods can be fun.
Pork beats beef.
Picturing the Earth. Some of it ain’t pretty. But even then it’s pretty.
Picturing working dogs. All of them pretty.
Kenyan chef Ali L’artiste tucks into Rwandan bananas and beans before it’s too late.

I say ale, you say beer.
Ireland has a patron saint of beer. Well of course it does.
The bread of the Gauls was made from beer foam.
Reviving ancient beers. Wait, what’s with all this beer today?
Genetic Resources in Plant Breeding: Conservation, Characterization and Utilization, 17-28 August 2015, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp, Sweden: More detailed information on this course coming soon…
Not that these guys in Florida need it.
Pix of kids’ breakfasts from around the world.
Development and biodiversity can coexist: here come the data.
African leafy veggies have truly arrived, haven’t they, if they’re getting the Fairtrade treatment.
But it might be too late for some medicinal plants.
Phytoliths 101.
What’s that you say? You want to integrate agrobiodiversity in your climate adaptation plans? Got just the thing for you.

Draft technical guidelines from FAO on conserving crop wild relatives at national level.
Small farms are beautiful.
Finding the climate adaptation needle in the genomic haystack. Hint: supercomputers needed. DivSeek alerted?
Emma Cooper asks: “…have you got a favourite ‘forgotten’ edible plant that you’d like to champion?”
James Wong talks about that kind of thing too, and much else garden-related besides, on his new website.
Rejoice, Google Earth Pro is now free!
Wageningen UR course on Food For All.
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is offering ten $10,000 postgraduate Food and Farming Journalism Fellowships. ‘Nuff said.
Speaking of fellowships: the 2015 call for Bioversity’s Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship is open.
Possible new Cannabis species from Australia: watch them do the DNA work and spoil it. Gap analysis, anyone? … As you were, didn’t need DNA after all.