What’s the collective noun for a roomful of genebank managers? An accession? No, that can’t be right.
Whatever it is, you can follow along with the fun at the Twitter hashtag #agm2014.
Nibbles: ILRI@40, CIAT cleanup, Breadfruit factsheets, Spice book, Senegalese e-goats, Natural history collections, Seed supplies, Bean breeding, Institution building, Eat This Podcast, Phenotyping, Indian eggplant, GMO Terminator
- ILRI celebrates 40 years with a major conference.
- Keeping the CIAT germplasm collection nice and clean.
- New variety information sheets from the Breadfruit Institute.
- Review of Gary Nabhan’s new book, Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey.
- Buying goats online.
- What would you do with one billion historical biodiversity data points?
- The tools of the seed-saver‘s trade.
- How to stress your beans, and why.
- A place for conservation organizations to hang out and share. You have to register, but this looks interesting.
- Jeremy has a second Twitter home.
- All 115 plant image analysis software solutions…
- Hyderabad’s brinjal obsession.
- A GMO terminator technology?
Nibbles: Greens, Agroecoagriculture, Nuts, Marketing
- Leafy greens MIA in India.
- Agroecology and ecoagriculture settle their differences?
- The hazelnuts of Trabzon … romantic nuts.
- “Geographical Indications, Biodiversity and Poor Communities: The opportunity of geographical indications to provide protection of traditional indigenous biodiversity products and benefits to poor agricultural communities. A Desk Study on six target countries: Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Mauritania.” I kid you not. Be still my beating heart.
Mapping the European genetic resources landscape
Following an initiative tabled by the European Parliament in 2013, the European Commission (DG Agriculture and Rural Development) contracted a “Preparatory action on EU plant and animal genetic resources in agriculture”. The project was launched in July 2014 for a period of two years.
Wow. The European Parliament interested in enough in agricultural biodiversity to invest a couple million euros in a study which is going to start by “identifying and mapping existing initiatives, databases, and collections related to genetic resources, as well as relevant stakeholders,” and take it from there. Watch this space…
Nibbles: Old pig, Good old Twitter, Old apples, Old nuts, Crap coffee, Dutch AnGR, Seaweed food, SP breeding, Women and nutrition, Florida peaches, Poisonous plant garden, Botanic gardens, Future climates in Iowa, Edible insect directory, Big Food wakes up to CC
- The oldest pig in the world is Vietnamese-Canadian.
- Why plant scientists should tweet. And draw.
- Trifecta of apples and other heirloom fruit. Make that four.
- And nuts.
- Making civet crap coffee sustainable.
- Dutch animal genebank moves.
- Will the inmates be fed seaweed? There’s a collection of those, you know?
- More money for to make sweet potato more nutritious.
- Or, you could empower women. Or both.
- Trouble with citrus? No problem, grow peaches.
- World’s coolest garden.
- And why we need even the less cool ones.
- Testing present plants in future climates.
- Who’s who in edible insects.
- Big Food suddenly realizes it has a climate change problem.