- Nigel Chaffey’s roundup of botanical news is out.
- Learn how to grow truffles. For Canadians.
- ILRI policy brief on how agriculture and human health are connected. Bottom line: it’s complicated.
- AVRDC introduces you to Mali’s Magnificent Cube.
- Biofortified on pepper breeding.
- Calestous Juma in the New Agriculturist on why he’s optimistic about African agriculture.
Pocket pigs find a use
After more than three decades of breed conservation and selection, a livestock research station in southeastern Taiwan has made a name for itself by selling minipigs locally for experimental purposes.
Are these minipigs the same as pocket pigs? Oh, I do hope so.
Iceland shows Leadersheep on film
Again thanks to DAD-Net for more livestock videos. This time from Iceland, which has a local sheep breed called the Leadersheep. No, really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67eiH9jYOtANibbles: Food photos, Phenology, Breadfruit, Medicinal plant gardens, Animal quiz, Soil agrobiodiversity, Cloning
- World Bank food snaps.
- Looks like there is phenotypic selection on flowering time.
- Workshop on revitalizing breadfruit in Hawaii. If you go, let us know.
- Sacred Seeds gardens around the world.
- How much do you know about animal production and health? FAO wants to know.
- CIAT now looking at soil biodiversity.
- Boffins can now clone plants as seeds. Clever, but is it good?
Agrobiodiversity conservation on Brazilian TV
Thanks to DAD-Net, news of eight TV programmes about conservation of animal genetic resources in Brazil. English subtitles, anyone?
1. Introduction to the series
3. Pantaneiro horse and Pantaneiro cattle
5. Moura pig
6. Horses raised in the Marajó Island (Amazon region)
8. Buffaloes raised in the Marajó Island (Amazon region)