- Dropping the poppy.
- Gardening on windowsills and along roadsides.
- Cooling camel milk. Via.
- Fingerprinting grapes.
- “The seed banks that are run by agribusiness corporations would be a costly pursuit for the government and farmers.” Where to start responding to this? Thanks, Jeff.
- Further evidence of food price crisis.
- “What does biodiversity mean to Syngenta?“
- Traditional healer goes online. Via.
- Videos from Global Plant Clinic.
Nibbles: Small kine, Cedar, Coffee, Cows (again), Niger, Citrus disease
- Mini-cows: Cheaper by the pound, but more expensive by the head.
- Lebanese icon imperilled.
- Birds protect coffee from coffee berry borer.
- Cows (m)aligned. Via.
- Jessica discovers millet and a grain bank (food, not seed).
- A new disease threatens citrus in Florida. Yay!
Nibbles: Honey, Records, Fowl, Fungi
- GIS used to manage production and marketing of honey.
- Silly season story number 1 and number 2.
- Avian flu threatens Turkey’s Hacıkadın chickens.
- Lybia has truffles? From the new NWFP-Newsletter1.
Special publication on livestock genetic resources
Livestock Science has a special issue on animal genetic resources. Or it will have, it doesn’t seem to be out yet, although some corrected proofs are available. You can get a flavour of the thing with the introduction. Here are some of the highlights:
- Animal genetic resource trade flows: Economic assessment
- Genebank development for the conservation of livestock genetic resources in the United States of America
- Molecular characterization of breeds and its use in conservation
- Animal genetic resource trade flows: The utilization of newly imported breeds and the gene flow of imported animals in the United States of America
- Research opportunities in the field of animal genetic resources
- Present status of the conservation of livestock genetic resources in Brazil
- Saving threatened native breeds by autonomous production, involvement of farmers organization, research and policy makers: The case of the Sicilo-Sarde breed in Tunisia, North Africa
Nibbles: Hemp, Galip, Fort Collins, Dwarf cows, Persephone, Atolls
- No member of the plant kingdom has ever been so willfully and stubbornly misunderstood.
- EU funds US$ 300 million to develop galip nut (Canarium indicum) in New Britain.
- Happy Birthday, Fort Collins.
- First, pocket pigs. Now, mini-cows. Watch our hits go through the roof.
- The story of the mother who went to Hell to protect her daughter.
- Kiribati to get atoll agriculture development centre. But where will they put it?