- Combining traditional and scientific knowledge on an invasive species to manage forests.
- Variation in dryland trees: Balanites and Adansonia.
- Roundup of biofortification bloggers.
Nibbles: Ethnobotany, Marketing, Cacao
Kebab and apple strudel
A speaker at the International Scientific Symposium Biodiversity and Sustainable Diets alerted me to the existence of the EuroFIR (European Food Information Resource) project.
EuroFIR aims to provide the first comprehensive pan-European food information resource, using state-of-the-art database linking, to allow effective management, updating, extending and comparability.
Sounds pretty dry, but the stuff on traditional and ethnic foods is actually rather fun.
Nibbles: PNG & CC, Pasture, Nagoya, Sesame, CIMMYT, Oryza, Tradition
- A view from Papua New Guinea on a project to prepare PNG agriculture for climate change.
- How to grow a properly biodiverse pasture. Hint: money isn’t enough.
- Another Nagoya round-up. And another.
- Sesamum monographed.
- Award for CIMMYT genebank.
- African rice domestication deconstructed.
- Traditional practices bad for Nigerian children, good for Chinese fish.
Innovation in African farming
From the JSTOR plant science blog, a link to a fascinating site called AfriGadget, which showcases ideas that solve “everyday problems with African ingenuity”. There are some wonderful ideas in there, from the farmer that reversed one of his ploughshares in order to capture water, to a simple seed planting gizmo made in northern Ghana. And, of course, keyhole gardens and other approaches to better nutrition. Definitely an inspirational one for the RSS feed.