Indigenous knowledge systems

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A tweet by James Wong a couple of days ago, that reproduced a map from a paper from a few years back showing the spread of the words for sweet potato around the world

had me searching the dark recesses of my brain, and the interwebs, for similar maps. Recently there was one for tea, for example.

Any others? A Reddit post turned up coffee (as well as honey and sugar).

Banana was harder to find.

Any more out there?

Unusual story linking the adoption of new varieties with the possible loss of old ones.
Unusual story linking climate change with orange juice.
Unusual story linking mobile phones with debatable development impacts.
Story on an unusual, new(ish) USDA genebank.
Not very unusual story about the C sequestration impacts of agroforestry.

The latest tropical forages newsletter.
The Edens Bluff seed bag for your pleasure. You’re welcome.
SciDev.net thinks Yemen is in North Africa. Anyway, be afraid.
Umbu and licuri are helping Brazilian farmers. Yeah, I don’t know what they are either. IFAD wants you to google them, I guess.
The Mutant Millet project is a name to conjure with.
As is the VIII International Scientific and Practical Conference on Biotechnology as an Instrument for Plant Biodiversity Conservation (physiological, biochemical, embryological, genetic and legal aspects).
Four ways nutrition is good for development. Only four?
What gets a new tuber accepted? Now there’s a project to find out. Only now?

The Smallholder on Svalbard. Martha unavailable for comment.
Jeremy’s latest bit of blarney.
Tasty toms.
A bunch more rice genomes. Wait, didn’t we Brainfood this? Of course we did, ages ago.
Avocado tattoos?
3D seeds. So beautiful, so useless.
Trees as technology.
Like galip nut, for instance.
My indigenous knowledge is your climate change adaptation.
Maharashtra: Malnutrition down, high blood pressure up.
Could probably still do with some biofortification.
The botany of chia.
ISBER Best Practices for biological repositories: The Webinar.
Meet ODAP.