Category: Livestock

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European livestock breed conservation assessed

A further addition to the mass of online information on livestock genetic resources around the world. It’s the final report of the SUBSIBREED project, providing and “Overview and assessment of support measures for endangered livestock breeds” in Europe. It was put together by the European Regional Focal Point for Animal Genetic Resources (ERFP), which is hosted by the Information and Coordination Centre for Biological Diversity (IBV) of the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)
in Bonn, Germany. I suppose the information will eventually find its way into the relevant databases?

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Nibbles: South Sudan livestock, Zanzibar spices, Sustainable fisheries, Wheat heat, Cape Town gardens, Saving chocolate, Camel cheese, Khaaaaaaan!

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Nibbles: Tibetan tea, Fancy maps, Fermented foods, ICIPE bioinformatics, Bull Story, Bee comeback, Men are from Mars, Hot crops

  • What I really need today is some Tibetan amdo milk tea. Very parky out.
  • Failing that, these cartograms will keep me warm.
  • This list of supposedly amazing agriculture maps is only meh, though. Needed more cartograms.
  • Oh wait, there are other fermented options out there.
  • ICIPE gets into Big Data.
  • Toystory has some big data of his own. Worrying perhaps to think what he’s done to the diversity of the breed, but let’s not be churlish about his achievement. At least he wasn’t a Nazi.
  • UK welcomes back some bees.
  • There was a big UC Davis–Mars Symposium yesterday on “An exploration of scientific discovery, innovation and collaboration in food, agriculture and health.” Some of it was on Twitter.
  • Roundup of crop wild relatives etc. research at US Davis.
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Nibbles: American goats, Ancient dogs, Colorado sheep, Beer vs Wine, Vitis breeding, Southern cooking, Pennsylvania farming, Cherokee seeds