- Livestock diversity in the hands of FAO. No comment.
- Let them eat fruit!
- AoB breaks down International Botanical Congress 18 for us.
- Species-poor tree plantations could be good for conservation of rare tree found in remnant forest patches in Chile because they encourage pollinators to move on. Agriculture, on other hand, is bad because it lures generalist pollinators into staying. Nature, don’t you just love it?
- Climate-proofing the Solomon Islands to include “the isolation of crop species tolerant of high salinity, high rainfall, and drought.” Strewth.
- Marine diversity. (Only kidding.)
- Good advice on home seed saving from Suzanne Ashworth. She wrote the (a?) book.
Ollas Per Persson
Just a great photo from the Swedish National Heritage Board, taken ca 1944, that I found on Flickr’s Economic Botany Pool.
Nibbles: CGRFA13, Kuroiler chicken, CGIAR, God, Mozambique
- Three days down, one to go in Rome.
- Indian hybrid chickens set to take over Uganda.
- Latest from CGIAR restructuring: the 6 research programmes agreed thus far. So how you like our latest toy?
- 60-tonne God of Rain unearthed; drought continues.
- Mozambique Raises Production of Staple Foods by 22% a Year. Amazing. How? And for how long?
The wonder of maize in images
GastronomÃa Hispanica has a great set of photos on its Facebook page on the “miracle of maize.” 1 Here’s a totally inadequate teaser. Go and friend them.
Nibbles: Goats, Nordic food, Roman beer, Mopani worms, South Sudan
- So apparently there’s a British Goat Society.
- More on that Nordic Food Lab. Note connection to NordGen.
- Beer Chicks do Rome artisanals. So much one could say about this.
- Mopani worms in London. Best place for them.
- South Sudan’s seed system.