Livestock

Nibbles: Horticulture, Phylogeny, Wheat stripe, Chaffey, Shrubs, AnGR, Spirulina, Capparis, Cricetus, Biofortification

Online map of horticultural projects. Mash it up with the CGIAR map, anyone?
Evolution and taxonomy of crop groups: Annonaceae and Allium.
Dealing with wheat stripe in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Some good news there.
Nigel Chaffey does his usual thing. Inimitable.
Today’s thing on what Africa needs for this Greener or Double Green or whatever Revolution everyone wants it to have.
Latest from FAO on what’s happening in livestock genetic resources conservation around the world.
And the latest wonder food. I’ll pass, thanks.
Improving capers through radiation. One of those things where you have to wonder whether it’s really all worth it.
The genetic diversity of the Polish common hamster. Wait, what?
Biofortified crops to the rescue. Again. Gotta wonder about overexposure. The backlash, when it inevitably comes, is going to be a doozy.

Unusual uses for a gourd.
CIAT says North Africa will suffer most from climate change. So it must be true.
Food Festival in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills of Mawphlang in India.
Forget the global poor and their hidden hunger. We’re not eating our fruit and veg either.
Evangelinemay1 wants to know how to “bring back biodiversity to our agricultural crops“. Let’s all love-bomb her, shall we?
Radix has mauka seeds! (He means anthocarps of Mirabilis expansa.)
ILRI continues to decrease agrobiodiversity — of animal diseases.

Resistance to coffee rust found in India, though not clear where. Now for the hard part …
Arguments for Payments for Ecosystem Services. Matt points to a conference in 2013, but where are the actual payments?
“Rather than decrying development in India and China we should be strenuously objecting to agrofuels.” So lets distinguish agrofuels from biofuels.
Today’s new genebank is in Israel. Bet there are some crop wild relatives in there.
Those Mayans were boffo agricultural engineers.
“Alcohol-free” cannabis. I don’t understand any of this.
A gene associated with flowering time has alleles associated with a rainfall gradient. h/t Jacob. Cool.

The UK’s take on Nagoya? “In the end it was a great success.” Really, it was.
ILRI outlines project to protect local livestock breeds in Viet Nam.
Another day, another genebank (in another language).
Haiti told to get growing. “I’ve worked in some severely affected countries, including Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Mali, but I have never seen such a suppressed agricultural system as we saw in Haiti.” Louise Sperling speaks truth to power.