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 politics to remind us that 2008 will be the International Year of the Potato.
King Corn
New documentary traces fate of US maize harvest.
Mapping hunger
FAO animated map of undernourishment. Via CABI.
Garden Mosaics
Garden Mosaics is “a science education and outreach program based at Cornell University that has been thriving in more than two dozen cities” in the US and has recently spread to South Africa. Marianne Krasny, a professor at Cornell, kept a blog of her 2006 trip to southern Africa. I wonder what they think about urban fruit gleaning…