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October 24, 2007October 23, 2007

Ecosystems and Poverty

Our friend Andy Jarvis of Bioversity/CIAT is off and running with his blog on Ecosystems and Poverty. It’s part of the Ecosystems Services & Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) project. Your RSS feed is in our reader, Andy. Welcome to the blogosphere.

October 23, 2007March 31, 2008

King Corn

Here’s an interview with the makers of the documentary King Corn, which is partly about how maize “covers the food landscape,” as well as the actual landscape, in the US.

October 22, 2007October 22, 2007

US National Agricultural Library blog

This could be fun: InfoFarm is a blog at the US National Agricultural Library. via IAALD.

October 19, 2007

Teaching kids about fungi

Fungi4Schools.

October 18, 2007October 18, 2007

Crop books reviewed

More about food and farming from bookforum.com, including links to reviews of books on the history of citrus and of beans. Meanwhile, iafrica.com has features on the potato in history and the potato and politicsÂ to remind us that 2008 will be the International Year of the Potato.

1. Prof. KC Bansal, who used to run the Indian national genebank, gets a much-deserved UNESCO honour.
2. Friend-of-the-blog Dr Mike Jackson on running a rice genebank. UNESCO honour for him too?
3. Spain’s strawberry genebank gets its 15 minutes.
4. University and Native American nation collaborate on regenerating heritage corn varieties.
5. The pros and cons of heritage varieties, according to an American farmer.
6. Did the ancient Romans have heritage apples?
7. Beautifully written piece on the use of heritage varieties — and much else besides — in breeding hazelnuts in the US. If you only read one of these Nibbles, read this one.
8. Old shipwrecked rye seeds may end up in whiskey. Best place for them.
9. Old Serbian grapevine herbarium samples should stay right where they are.
10. Old horses most certainly did not stay where they were. But where was that exactly?
11. Not sure where old bottled fruit from Washington’s estate will end up. The DNA lab maybe, like those Serbian grapevines?
12. There’s going to be a Worldwide Day of Botanical Art on May 18, 2025. Rejoice.
13. Decolonizing food insecurity in West Africa.
Published on January 17, 2025