The 21st International Pepper Conference is coming up. Well, sort of, it’s in a year’s time, November 4-6, 2012 in Naples, Florida, USA. I wonder if self-described seed capitalist and Tabasco aficionado Tom Adlam will go. Or at the very least “friend” the Facebook page. No sign of a blog, though, which is increasingly de rigueur these days at conferences, nor a Twitter hashtag. Early days, I guess. However, you can already sign up, clunkily, for an email newsletter.
Nibbles: Gates, Small farmers, Romans in Britain, Ancient Americans, Chocolate, Talks, Climate change, Heirloom apples
- Bill Gates Accepts Hunger Award, Says Focus on Poor Farmers “More Important Than Ever“. Go Bill!
- Small farmer in Mozambique doing well by doing good.
- Ancient Romans drank in South Tyneside. What else was there to do?
- Ancient Americans moved down the coast. That’s where the food was.
- Rewarding excellent chocolate from smallholder farmers.
- Food & Communication: Recipes for Development. IFPRI plays TED on Thursday.
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation: just do it! A. Jarvis comes out storming.
- West African farmers ‘already adapting to climate change’. A. Jarvis picks up his ball and goes home.
- Desperately seeking heirloom apples in Idaho.
Nibbles: Bioinformatics, Extension, Apples, Potatoes, Research, Cacao genebank, Cassava hope, Rice and Striga
- Bioinformatics for Dummies. Not that anyone I know needs it.
- Are there simpler ways to close the yield gaps in developing countries? Indeed, there are, but they’re not very sexy.
- And speaking of low-hanging fruit: How the apple took over the planet.
- Tuber diversity. Miss Hathorn is showing off the progeny of some true potato seed. And by true, I also mean truly potato.
- USDA ARS ♥ CGIAR ♥ USDA ARS
- And Trinidad & Tobago ♥ CFC, ICCO and Bioversity.
- Nigeria pins green revolution hopes on cassava. Is it ever a good idea to pin your hopes on just one thing?
- NERICA’s Striga problem deconstructed.
Nibbles: Coffee pix, Afghanistan pix, #GROW, #GORTA
- It’s been coffee week at Old Picture of the Day.
- More pictures. Afghanistan’s silk industry this time.
- It’s been #GROW Week too.
- Jess at Gorta. Follow #gorta for live updates.
New uses for meat and veg
Do play with your food. It could make you rich and famous, as it has English photographer Carl Warner. There’s a slideshow at La Repubblica, where the interview breathlessly gushes that “The Arcimbolo of the new millennium is sexy, speaks English, and uses his art to fight against obesity”. We’ve seen some edible landscapes before; I’m linking to these partly because Warner has used some very unusual species in his images. I’m sure you’ll be able to find them …