- Naked necked chicken in music video shock.
- Piment d’Espalette. Jeremy asks “What’s the big deal, really?”
- The ITPGRFA on CNN.
- Fiji to set up breadfruit genebank.
- Lacto-fermenting your eggplant and chrysanthemum petals.
- More on FAO’s Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems book.
- “Where farming communities have been able to maintain their traditional varieties, they are already using them to cope with the impacts of climate change.”
- Yam Minisett Technology pushed.
Marina of the Zabballeen does the rounds
We’ve blogged a few times about the plight of the Zabballeen — Cairo’s Coptic garbage collectors and pig-keepers — in the wake of the pig cull which was the Egyptian governments main response to swine flu. Now, via Treehugger, comes news of a movie about this embattled community: Marina of the Zabballeen. It seems to have done quite well on the festival circuit. If you caught it, let us know.
Nibbles: Chicory symbolism, Watermelon disease, Olive documentation, Camassia quamash, Pig maps
- Chicory averts evil. Gotta get me some.
- Genebank watermelon material reveals sources of resistance to WVD caused by SqVYV. What?
- Israelis, Palestinians and Germans collaborate on DNA fingerprinting and quality evaluation of olive trees. Wait, what? Scroll down.
- Genetic structure of Native American food plant not really affected by Native Americans. This is the bulb that kept Lewis & Clark alive, apparently.
- Tracing Paper compares hog distribution in 1922 and now, finds little difference.
Nibbles: European agricultural origins, Drought, Native American ranching, Sorghum, Anthocyanins in apples, Dog coat, Pear cider
- Farmers headed into Europe. As it were.
- BBC slideshow on drought in NE Kenya and its effect on pastoralists.
- Might they have something to learn from the Sedillo Cattle Association at Laguna Pueblo, NM?
- The script of a radio programme about drought-resistant sorghum in Karamoja, northern Uganda. I can’t find the programme itself.
- The genetics of red-fleshed apples.
- Just 3 genes account for all dog fur phenotypes. But “[w]hat’s important for human health is the way we found the genes involved….rather than the genes themselves.”
- Pear cider makes a comeback.
Nibbles: Fish, Lupines, Dogs, Seeds, Sorghum, Oca
- Farm ponds for water, fish and livelihoods: The role of farm ponds in sustaining livelihoods.
- The nutritional value of Andalusian lupines. Domesticate ’em, someone.
- Saving the Akita … and other things.
- Bob Brockie wants to know what happened to the seeds his dad sent to Vavilov. Good luck with that.
- Q&A about sorghum farming for Guinness Ghana.
- Oca breeding in the UK. This is SO exciting …