Livestock

Nibbles: Indo-Europeans, Ecosystems, Urban ag, Aquaculture, Pigs, Rice

More on The Horse, the Wheel and Language. Giddyup!
More species means more productivity. At least in the Patagonian steppe.
Bogota urban agriculture to embrace native species.
Ohio farmers to rear Amazonian fish. Amazonian farmers unavailable for comment.
I wonder if Turkish pigs are genetically interesting.
Ifugau rice terraces being abandonedÂ by “world’s best rice farmers.” Ok that’s weird, because they’re also supposed to solve the rice shortage problem. Gosh, this is probably worth more than just a nibble.

Social networking for livestock. Not as silly as it sounds.
Fish in the Tea. Dr Seuss unavailable for comment. Via.
Natura 2000 network expands. Good for wild relatives? Does anybody know? Care?
Brits flocking back to their allotments? I spot an opportunity for seed savers and heirloom varieties.

Economist blogger tells conservationists to stop with the hotspot mapping already, and conserve something. DIVA-GIS developers unavailable for comment.
Some of the tea in China.
Filipinos abandon cannabis for silk. Jeremy comments: you can smoke silk?
Nice tree photos.
FT does the interactive thing with rising food prices. Via. Let them eat pasta, I say.
Wanted: more mid-sized farms to fight The Man.
Watch out world. Mississippi set to industrialise basil production.
Ten reasons AGRA won’t work.
A tale of two rice-growers; how the crop has fared in Brazil and China.
Danes meet to save seeds.
Southern Africans meet to save seeds.

Forget those silly pocket pigs. Who needs their smooth, anodyne winsomeness. What you want is a hybrid hedgehog. And the Time Team has a great idea for what to do with the little beggars.

It’s that time again. Tangled Bank 103. Don’t miss the comments!
Italian cinghiale different from wild boar north of Alps, not involved in domestication.
Book traces plate of curry, trousers back to source. Weirdly, Bangladesh in both cases.