- 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.
Ethereal botany
Lots of botany in the ether today from #Bot21C #globalplants @JSTORPlants @UNESCO good to feel the inspiring and positive vibes
— Sandra Knapp (@SandyKnapp) September 23, 2014
Indeed. And thanks Sandy Knapp for keeping us all informed.
Nibbles: Australian agrobiodiversity, European forests, Eva, Brazil in Africa, Seasons in the sun, FFS, IRC2014, Shiva farrago, Tricky crops, Genome editing, Amish revolution, Thai rat, Disease spread, Coffee culture
- Bush tucker may be viable business proposition. But doesn’t it taste like crap? And do any crop wild relatives qualify?
- Europe mapping its high value forests. No word on whether crop wild relatives come into the assessment.
- Sorghum breeder reveals all.
- Embrapa supporting African agriculture with help from Gates Foundation.
- How many seasons are there anyway?
- Test yourself on Farmer Field Schools.
- Delve into abstracts for the 4th International Rice Congress (IRC2014).
- New Yorker replies to Vandana Shiva reply to her profile in the New Yorker.
- Some crops resist mechanization.
- Editing the horns from cattle genome.
- A young Amish farmer with big ideas.
- Your organic rat, sir.
- Crop pests and diseases are coming to get you.
- Fun reddit with Peter Giuliano, barista extraordinaire.