Have you been following the Web 2.0 Greenpeace vs Nestlé brouhaha over unsustainable oil palm plantations? The whole thing is lucidly and attractively laid out below. Now that the social web has Nestlé on the ropes, can we get them to support cacao genebanks around the world? Forever.
Online photos of protected European food products
Why We Love the Internet, volume 36. There’s a Flickr group on “Food products in the EU Protected Designation of Origin scheme.” Something we blogged about recently, as it happens. The map is really cool. Well, actually, the whole thing is cool.
It’s official, spring is here
Gotta love cherry blossom time.
Nibbles: Seeds, Organics, Absinthe, Potato, Cattle genome, Tree diseases, Rice, ABS, Avian flu
- Software will ease seed availability. No, really.
- Enforcement of organic regulations sometimes flawed. No really.
- Absinthism a myth. No, really.
- Potato film hits big time. No, really.
- “Influential” bulls sequenced. No, really.
- Tree diseases distribution will change under climate change. No, really?
- Boffins in drive to double rice production in Africa. No, really.
- Boffins and lawyers meet to sort out biodiversity access and benefit sharing thing. No, really. And, incidentally, what could possibly go wrong?
- H5N1 committee wonders whether they have sampled enough. No, really.
From one fish to feeding the world
If we’re feeding more people, more cheaply, how bad can that be?
Watch Dan Barber’s mesmerizing TedTalk and get the answers to that rhetorical question. This is storytelling at its best, storytelling with a real point, storytelling that could change the way people think.