- Sheep grazing on natural grassland taste better and are better for the envioronment.
- Student goes around world looking for seeds. How’s it going, Adam?
Nibbles: Map, Healthy foods, Ireland, Farmers’ Markets, Tea, ACSS, Coconut
- Bill funds Africa soil map.
- Healthy foods. Pace the blogger, I could probably get all of them in Nairobi.
- First Irish farmers came and went.
- Pssst! Wanna start your own Farmers’ Market?
- Tea.
- The African Crop Science Society has a website.
- Coconut: the lazy man’s crop. Thousands of women batter down Sun Star’s doors.
Yes we have orange bananas
We’ve nibbled the new New Agriculturist but not highlighted specifically, I think, the fact that it has a special on bananas. And African bananas in particular. Coincidentally, there’s a paper out in Food Chemistry on genetic variability in carotenoid content within Musa .
Videos on traditional food systems
The Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE) based in McGill University, Canada, responded to requests from indigenous leaders from around the world to help stop loss of traditional food system knowledge with research and community-driven activities that bridge the generation.
This series of videos presents highlights from 12 indigenous community areas in 9 countries, and is intended to con tribute to the evidence base used to make global policies to protect Indigenous Peoples’ food resources and promote good health.
Thanks to Lois Englberger for the tip.
Hemp honoured
The International Year of the Potato gives way to the International Year of Natural Fibres. That include hemp?