- Botswana’s main seed supplier pushes hybrid seeds.
- Ethiopia lists its genebank holdings.
- Scientific American on consequences of lack of livestock diversity.
- Creating tomorrow’s heirlooms, Bishop salutes amateur breeders.
- New Agriculturist on bananas et al.
- Climate change bad for fish too.
- Black rats bad for other rats too.
- Sustainable wine.
Nibbles: Chickens, Realpolitik, Apples, Kew, Maize, Local food
- Chicken wild relatives to rescue breeds.
- Politics as theatre as politics: report from Terra Madre.
- Little shrines to bottled water … Levazza peddling an industrial and inferior product: more from Terra Madre.
- Season of mists and apple biodiversity. Thanks Sarah.
- The wonder that is Kew Gardens and its Millennium Genebank.
- What’s wrong with the maize seed sector in Africa?
- Some reasons to buy local food, though maybe not ten as advertised.
Nibbles: Orwell, Vaccines, Turkey
- Orwell summarizes; ownership, ploughing, crop diversity, livestock.
- Broad spectrum immunisation for plants.
- Turkish agriculture blog.
Nibbles: Anthrax, Sheep
- The perils of working with agrobiodiversity products.
- “The Nejdi sheep of today are much more beautiful than those of 10 years ago.”
Assyrian food culture in the Old and New Worlds
The BBC has an interesting photo essay on wine-making’s struggle for survival in Turkey among Assyrian Christians. Interestingly, a scion of the Assyrian community is something of a food guru in the Bay Area. Expatriates again…