- Cattle for everyone. ILRI hedges its bets.
- Markets in everything: smallholder edition.
- Breadfruit everywhere. Yeah that’ll work.
Future of pastoralism in Africa debated
The Future of Pastoralism in Africa conference is off and running at ILRI in Addis Abba. There’s the these days obligatory Twitter hashtag: #futpastafrica2011. But also a no doubt soon-to-be dépassé website.
Nibbles: Chickens!, Nigerian R&D, Obesity, Neglected species,
- Henderson’s Handy-Dandy Chicken Chart. Parochial: only one naked.
- “Local farmers hold key to ending hunger“. Q&A with Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Nigeria.
- Selected papers on Food & Obesity, free from the Journal of Public Health Policy.
- UK academic promotes underutilised species shock.
5th European Seminar on AgroBiodiversity
Thanks to the excellent DAD-Net ((Not this, this.)) comes news of the 5th European Seminar on AgroBiodiversity: “Preservation or Adaptation? – Conservation in the face of a changing environment.” It’s to be held 25 September 2011 in Dimitrovgrad, Serbia (that’s near the Bulgarian border), as part of the annual meeting of the SAVE Foundation and the European SAVE Network. Sounds like great fun, especially the “Regional Fair of Balkan AgroBiodiversity.” Anyone going?
Nibbles: Yak, Flax, Diet, Naked chicks, Insectivory, Pastoralism conference, ICTs
- Know your yak breeds. h/t Brendan
- Neolithic linen.
- You are what your mother ate. Its all down to the Hnf4a gene.
- Naked chick necks? It’s all down to an interaction between the BM12 gene and retinoic acid receptors.
- Laos swallows the lets-eat-insects bait. Dutch follow suit?
- The future of pastoralism. It has one? Is this the alternative?
- Citizen science in national parks.