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
Gastronomía 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.
Nibbles: Breeding, Frankincense and myrrh, Roman pills, Chinese botanic garden, NPGS, Green red bush tea, Old banyan, Terroir, Botanic gardens and invaders, AnGR
- National Organic Coalition suggests USDA’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture separate conventional and participatory breeding from anything involving DNA in considering projects for support.
- Second-guessing the Three Wise Men.
- Yet more on attempts to deconstruct ancient Roman medicines using DNA from tablets found in a shipwreck. Real Indiana Jones stuff.
- Botanic garden and genebank for drought-resistant plants to be established “in Asia’s largest wild fruit forest.” That would be in China. I really don’t know what to make of this. Really need to find out more. But why am I talking to myself?
- Brown (rice) is beautiful.
- Feedback from a genebank user. Kinda.
- Rooibos gets itself certified.
- The oldest cultivated tree on record.
- The taste of Massachusetts.
- “…strongly conservation-minded botanic gardens appear to be in the minority.” Easy, tiger. Will that new one in China (see above) feature in this minority?
- ILRI on an Aussie TV program on conserving local livestock breeds in Africa.