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Historical photographs of Peru botanical expedition online

The Field Museum joined Flickr Commons in April 2009, inviting the public to help describe a selection of our historic photographs.

And that includes some incredible photos from botanist J. Francis MacBride’s expeditions to Peru in 1922 and 1923. Like this one, for example.

There’s some agrobiodiversity in there. If you can help out with describing any of the photos, leave a comment on its Flickr page.

Interesting stuff behind a paywall: Thai government rethinks sustainability. Not that interesting.
Same goes for Latin American Agroecologists Build a Powerful Scientific and Social Movement.
CNN Mexico shows-and-tells the Spanish-speaking world about urban agriculture. Thanks Jeff.
Emile Frison briefs Eurocrats on the The key relationship between biodiversity and agriculture. Video!
Reflections on the invention of agriculture in MesoAmerica.
Nailing fraudulent labeling of Darjeeling tea. Throw the book at them, I say.
Lassi: “It’s the taste.” Yeah but how healthy can you make the stuff?
“We found large differences in manure levels…” I bet you did.
Soil! Don’t treat it like dirt. (Jeremy’s favourite bumper sticker.)
Veggies in windows, fish in cages.

NY Times touts heirloom apple book.
Coca Cola to help Haitian mango farmers.
Nature Conservancy launches online Atlas of Global Conservation. No agriculture, natch.
Promoting Mediterranean cheese.

Lots of Indian rice in the IRRI genebank. Any of it being used to develop drought-tolerant varieties?
Lots of journalists in the Tunisian genebank.
How they make coffee in Ethiopia.
How they make popcorn the world over. You sometimes get popcorn (or popped sorghum) with coffee in Ethiopia, now I think of it. And since we’re on an Ethiopian kick, fancy some enjera? Gary Nabhan did.
“Productivity vs. sustainability is a ‘false choice.’” Well I never. And probably not news to these people either, or these. But to these guys?
A Twitter roundup from Embrapa.
Ugly hybrid of two wild strawberries may cause allergies.
Explanation of evolution of doubled genes in wild and cultivated sunflowers certainly causes pain in brain.
Some good climate change news for the Atlantic croaker. Being a glass-totally-empty kinda guy I predict it tastes like shit.