- Garlic diversity evaluated. Vampire-blocking not assessed.
- The movements of Ice Age bison in Canada and Bronze Age cattle in Britain deconstructed.
- The plight of the banteng.
- Natural NERICA? Well, maybe, but at what frequencies?
- Seed Savers Handbook online. Jeremy conflicted.
Nibbles: Cassava, Success, Fish, Models, Videos, Radio, Grazing
- South Africans produce virus-resistant cassava.
- Success stories in agricultural development documented. Some agrobiodiversity in there.
- Fisheries and food security. And more. And more: why not eat “weedy”fish?
- A crop modeler speaks.
- African agriculture is on youtube, but just barely.
- Forage grasses for beginners. Straight from the grazier’s mouth.
Nibbles: Apples, Rangeland degradation
- Woman discovers marketable new apple. Good news.
- Mongolian blogger thinks rangeland sustainability “projects should do more work in people’s mind than on the rangeland.”
Nibbles: Sheep, Syrup, Antioxidants, Urban flora, Politics, Erosion, Prince, India and climate change
- British hill sheep in trouble.
- Canadian maple syrup in trouble.
- Fruits good for you.
- Native urban plants in trouble. How many crop wild relatives among them?
- “If the world learned to feed itself half a century ago, why are there now more hungry people than ever before?” Er … I dunno. Either-orism?
- “Almost all of the 300 experts at a two-day food forum in Rome this week agreed that between them they had all the answers to how to feed the world in 2050, but doubted they would have the political support to do it.” Alert the media!
- “Erosion of Crop Diversity Worrying“. Malawian plant breeder speaks.
- British wildflowers in trouble, prince says? How many crop wild relatives among them? Does prince know? Care?
- Indian crops in trouble.
Nibbles: Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Agrobiodiversity tourism, Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle, Eels
- A Sri Lankan renaissance farmer muses.
- A Mongolian renaissance farmer talks.
- The Opium Museum and the Corn Palace.
- Guam fights rhino beetle with virus to save coconuts.
- Dutch ban eel fishing.