- More on those purple tomatoes. And there’s lots more where that came from.
- Virus weakens the response of genes that normally boost defense against pest.
- “Superman had it right.”
- Yeah, but France has genebanks too.
- Dispatches from Terra Madre: “How are you fighting racism in your food community?”
Nibbles: Wild food, Sisal, Cucurbits, Carnival, Rice blight
- Zimbabwean take to wild foods, and not in a good way.
- “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see my sisal flooring.”
- Gourds+Halloween=Jawdropping Creativity.
- Tangled Bank 117.
- “Terror agent” listing for Xanthomanas oryzae blights US rice research.
Global Source Book on Biocultural Diversity
Terralingua’s Global Source Book on Biocultural Diversity is out and available for download as a pdf. And very impressive it is too. It looks at “worldwide experiences in an integrated approach to sustaining cultures and biodiversity” through some 50 or so case studies, of which one, from Peru, is on agrobiodiversity. Better than nothing, I guess.
Berry go Round
The latest Berry go Round — Number 10 — is up at 10,000 birds, whose proprietor, Mike, definitely gets it:
I love plants. You do too, whether you’re in touch with your vegephilia or not. Everything you eat or smoke and practically everything you drape on your body or put in your car to make it go derives directly or indirectly from the vegetable kingdom.
And for once, I’m not going to winge about the paucity of agricultural interest. There’s masses. Neglected species, citrus taxonomy, wild relatives, recipes, the whole enchilada. Check it out.
Climate change information discussed
CTA’s seminar to identify ways of improving access to climate change information for agriculture and rural development in ACP countries is off and running in Ouagadougou. There’s a blog to help you follow the proceedings. Agrobiodiversity is not explicitly listed as a theme, but I suspect it will come up.