- We missed the first UK fungus day yesterday.
- And the new world record pumpkin. Love that wide-angle lens, BTW.
- And a training course on plant genetic resources and genebank management.
- But not plant biodiversity to regenerate more productive pastures.
- Nor efforts to conserve navara red rice.
- Kudos to Ghana, the first country with a national yam strategy.
- And to Australia, for muddying the linguistic waters with something called a PlantBank.
- Local farmers supply the food for school meals in Africa.
- By far the strangest thing I’ve seen since a seed exploded a spliff some while ago.
Nibbles: Apples, Aussie genebank, Ugandan coffee song, Biodiversity hotspots, CWR inventory, Ancient Amazon, Chestnut recovery, Mainstreaming nutrition
- Yet another blog post about heirloom apples. Why not heirloom, I don’t know, grains?
- Yet another genebank opens.
- On the other hand, can never have too many agrobiodiversity songs.
- Banks? someone mention banks? Biodiversity hotspots are like (some) banks. Too big to fail.
- Even crop wild relative hotspots?
- 1491: Amazon.
- 1493: New England. Hope Charles Mann won’t mind me borrowing his tropes.
- Interesting use of technology to deliver interesting presentation on mainstreaming of nutrition in agricultural development. Anyone know how it was done?
Nibbles: ITK book, Golden Rice, Indian census, School meals, Camels, Fermentation, CC comms, Eel aquaculture
- The Guide for the Perplexed Entering the Maze of Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore. Great title.
- IRRI DG blogs about Golden Rice on World Sight Day. In other news, there’s a World Sight Day.
- Indian farmers ever more marginal.
- If they were in Africa, they’d be producing nutritious school meals.
- Book on camel biodiversity.
- Turns out Jeremy is part of a movement that he apparently didn’t even know existed.
- Are you involved in the UNFCCC agriculture negotiations? You’ll need this handy communications tool-kit. Agricultural biodiversity is in there somewhere.
- Not sure that eels are, but maybe they should be.
Nibbles: Committee on Food Security, Nutrition for noodles, Gum trees, GBIF
- The Committee on World Food Security is meeting in Rome. If that’s the kind of thing that whets your appetite, follow #cfs40 on Twitter.
- Where, if it’s not too late, you’ll find me offering mouth-watering nutritional advice.
- Up a gum tree; ICRAF clones puffpo piece. Whatever happened to added value?
- GBIF — the Global Biodiversity Information Facility — has a new portal. But is it a better portal?
- And you can watch GBIF’s Science Symposium 2013 live in just under 85 minutes, and counting.
Agrobiodiversity meta-calendar needed!
Yesterday’s Nibble scared me, I don’t mind admitting. So many meetings and other events going on, all over the world, all the time. What is a poor boy interested in agrobiodiversity to do to keep track?
Here’s what, since you ask. What we need is an app — or a real live human being, I don’t care — to regularly go through the following online calendars, extract the events of most obvious relevance to agricultural biodiversity, and plonk them on another, bespoke online calendar:
- CGIAR
- Young Professionals for Young Professionals in Agricultural Research for Development
- Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
- Agrifeeds
- Convention on Biological Diversity
Now, you tell me, is that too much to ask for?
LATER: Cédric makes some additional suggestions in a comment, but I only really like these two: