- Native American eating “best museum cafeteria in town”. “Makes up for the museum,” sniffs Jeremy
- Catalog of advanced clones and improved varieties going like hot potatoes.
- The Economic Impact of Bioversity is apparently “a seriously problem-rich, solution-craving topic”. Innovation Investment Journal says so.
- Pharaonic palm not immortal. Medemia argun “critically endangered”.
- Goat lineage diversity delineated. Paywalled.
- Chickpea diversity includes variability in resistance to salinity. Paywalled.
Nibbles: Women, Old Crops, New Crops, Forests, Pavlovsk
- Women and livestock.
- Women are not the solution.
- Hang on, sorry. Women are the solution.
- Traditional crops help improve agricultural sustainability, says scientist.
- Biofortification “is exactly what we need to … improve global health,” says Deputy Coordinator for Development at Feed the Future.
- Grist’s “good news for trees” roundup of 2010.
- Russie : menace sur le jardin d’Eden – that’s Pavlovsk for non francophones — a TV report.
Nibbles: Oranges, Pigs, Roundup, Agave
- The Human Flower Project uses Christmas oranges to teach about diversity and traditional knowledge.
- The New York Times discovered the hairy Hungarian Mangalitsa pig … so it must be real.
- SciDev.net’s highs and lows of 2010.
- “The genetic resources from landraces ignored by the tequila industry may be valuable for both ethanol production and conservation.” Uh-huh. h/t Jacob.
Nibbles: Old fruit, Same fruit, Fruit juice, Dog breeding, Plant Cuttings, Seed storage, Romanian cattle breeds
- REALLY old fruit found in Chinese cellar.
- Marufo the same as Brujidera? Say it ain’t so!
- Rachel Laudan deconstructs a French depiction of cider-making. Well, someone had to.
- Genetic modification dates back to ancient Mexico.
- Rejoice, Plant Cuttings is out!
- Seeds of alpine plants don’t live as long as those of lower altitudes. So how many crop wild relatives are high-altitude species I wonder?
- Get your teeth into the work of the Transylvanian Rare Breeds Association.
The truth about camel wool
Now, you may think … [that] … camel wool is quite famous for making rather nice garments. However, normally such wool is sourced from two-humped camels who live in the cold and high-altitude deserts of Mongolia and China. Our wool is from one-humped dromedary camels ((Incidentally, here’s a brochure on the Camel Conservation and Livelihoods
Project initiated by the NGO LPPS in Rajasthan (India) and just posted to DAD-Net. We live to make these connections.)) whose hair is quite short and rough and was until now believed to be much too scratchy to process into any thing else than a rope or a rug.
Actually I did think that. You live and learn. But really, would it kill the Rolex Award people to enable an RSS feed from the blogs of their laureates?
