- Remember those photos of global families’ food? The creators answer questions.
- Speaking of funding, an analysis of aid for agriculture published January 2008.
- CABI blogger pushes Nettle Awareness Week. Quite right too.
- “The men don’t know how to sell, they’ll give up the potatoes for next to nothing.“
- Vietnamese pangassius farmers up in arms. Yeah I never heard of it either, but I’ll be looking for it in the market out of solidarity .
- How to involve children in gardening.
CWR discussion group launched
Our friend and occasional contributor Danny Hunter has just set up a Yahoo discussion group on crop wild relatives, as part of his new job. Hop on over and join up, it promises to be great fun. In bocca al lupo, Daniele!
Nibbles: Tangled Bank, Banana, Films, Biofuels, DOC
- Tangled Bank 105 is up. Ag-related: safe fugu bred, and canine genetics. Down boy.
- Gene Expression blogs Banana (the book). Interesting comments too.
- Indian women make films to protect biodiversity. P’raps they’ll enter our next competition?
- US to scale back corn-for-booze subsidy by whopping 12%?
- Sardinian saffron to be protected.
Another NGO web site
Ron Cross, Communications Officer for USC Canada, dropped us a note:
I work for a Canadian NGO – USC Canada – that works primarily on agriculture programs with small-scale farmers in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Working with small local NGOs, we support programs, training, and policies that strengthen biodiversity, food sovereignty, and the rights of those at the heart of resilient food systems – women, indigenous peoples, and small-scale farmers.
In all that we do, we take the view that genetic diversity, created by small-scale farmers, is the planet’s most vital resource, and I would like to ask that you add our website to your list of links.
Happy to oblige. and to take the opportunity to say again that we don’t necessarily endorse all (or any) of the points of view on sites we link to. For example, how can anyone claim that “Terminator” seeds are a serious global threat? But here is not the place for that argument.
Nibbles: Ancient grains, ex situ, onions, organic, marine resources
- Lots of new products feature ancient grains; King Tut unavailable for comment.
- How genebanks work. Both Jeremy and Luigi available for comment and editing services.
- Crackdown on onion smuggling.
- Alleged myths about organic farming.
- First Americans ate seaweed.