The case for the prosecution: Kenyans are losing their food culture. The case for the defence: traditional foods are being revived and this is attracting the attentions of multinational. I suspect the truth, as ever, is somewhere in between. How so very boring.
Nibbles: Pastoralists, Millennium Village, African agriculture
- “The film showcases Bio-Cultural Protocols highlighting the Raika community of Rajasthan and the Samburu of Kenya. Developing Biocultural Protocols is an important means of implementing both paragraph 8j of the CBD and Strategic Priority 6 of the Global Plan of Action on Animal Genetic Resources.”
- How Ethiopia’s Millennium Village is doing.
- And along the same lines, what Pedro Sanchez has to say about African agriculture and that green revolution nit needs to have.
Nibbles: Breeding, Vegetables, Early agriculture, Breeding course, Nabhan, Gardens, Sequencing twice, er no, once.
- Solanum porno.
- Veggie tourism.
- Something else to blame climate change for. Not.
- Wanna learn breeding?
- Gary does Turkey.
- Podcast on school gardens.
- Department of improbable claims: Sunflower genome holds the promise of sustainable agriculture.
- Ok then Mr Cynical, how about woodland strawberry, then?
- Not so fast, Mr Sunshine: No strawberry genome ::sniff::
Nibbles: Conferences, Banana satire, Green rice, Fairchild, Slippery cabbage
- Advance notice of the IAALD 13th World Congress in Montpellier, France. Sounds like a blast.
- Likewise for the Society for Economic Botany’s annual bash.
- “Rabid banana consumption in the last 100 years has led to a precipitous increase in natural disasters.” Satire.
- I’ve heard of green wheat to eat, but never green rice.
- Protecting tropical trees from frost at a Florida botanic garden.
- “Collecting germplasm is the first step in helping a nutritious island vegetable set seed.” Indeed it is.
Nibbles: Vavilov on couscous, Molecular studentships, Goat genetics, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Sweet potato, New Agriculturist, Vietnam and CC, Liberian ag research, Cuisine
- Couscous deconstructed.
- China and Bioversity collaborate on molecular marker training.
- Neolithic legging helps unravel the history of the goat in Europe.
- Dag’s cool Svalbard pix.
- CIP launches Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa (SASHA).
- The new New Agriculturist does markets.
- Climate change and rice cultivation in the Mekong Delta.
- The perils of agricultural research in Liberia: one trial up in smoke, another stolen. Bummer.
- Ok, I had no idea there was a Tasting Cultures Foundation. Thanks, Facebook.