- More on #IBC18 from AoB. Web 2.0 as it should be.
- EurActive.com with massive dossier on sustainable intensification in Europe. Not much diversification there, though, except for intercropping.
- Boffins look for wild macadamias with thinner shells for wimpy consumers. Well, not just that.
- The ancient Maya mixed up their turtles.
- Grass skirts latest GMO fear.
Photoguide to West African plants online

This interactive photographic guide 1 shall help you to identify higher plants from West African ecosystems. It contains images of ferns and seed plants taken in the field. You can browse through a taxonomic hierarchy and/or search according to selected characters you observe on your plant.
Have we linked to this before? I seem to remember doing so, but can’t find the evidence. Anyway, it includes cultivated plants.
Contribute to video on culture of breadfruit in Hawaii
Your contribution to our Kickstarter campaign will help us to edit and distribute a web-series of video interviews with Hawaiian cultural experts on the culture and history of breadfruit and what breadfruit means for the future of Hawai‘i.
25 days and $3,660 to go. Please give generously! 22 people already have. And isn’t Kickstarter a great idea?

Oh no, not another social network!
We’ve been playing around with Scoop.it. What do you think?
Nibbles: CGRFA13, Kuroiler chicken, CGIAR, God, Mozambique
- Three days down, one to go in Rome.
- Indian hybrid chickens set to take over Uganda.
- Latest from CGIAR restructuring: the 6 research programmes agreed thus far. So how you like our latest toy?
- 60-tonne God of Rain unearthed; drought continues.
- Mozambique Raises Production of Staple Foods by 22% a Year. Amazing. How? And for how long?