- Camels make a comeback in Rajasthan.
- Globalization comes to Russian kvas production.
- Mangosteen finally allowed into US. NY Times video about exotic fruits. Via.
- While the rest of the world frets about high food prices, US declares National Watermelon Month.
- USDA tries to keep abreast of honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder.
- Teaching about soil microbial agrobiodiversity.
Nibbles: Trees, AGRA, pig meat, culinodiversity, fund raising, seed, data
- Let them eat leaves: farmers to plant trees in Kenya.
- For the archives: Rockefeller Foundation’s original blueprint for A Green Revolution for Africa (PDF).
- Keeping it real, computers and genetics monitor Iberian ham.
- Eat diversity to conserve it.
- Three-headed coconut tree for sale. To you, one million bucks.
- Video on FAO seed project in Afghanistan. I just hope somebody’s taking care of the landraces.
- Scientists exhorted to geo-reference. IRRI GIS staff unavailable for comment.
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 abandoned 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.
Nibbles: Donkeys, Aquaculture, Protected areas, Vegetables
- 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.
Nibbles: Hotspots, tea, silk, photos, food prices, basil, AGRA, rice, Denmark, SADC
- 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.