- UK breeders scour ICARDA’s fava beans for better genes. What next? Chianti?
- Olive cultivation then and now. An archaeologist speaks.
- Entomophagy.
- Lager yeast origins.
- Salvia divinorum: underutilized no longer.
Nibbles: Value chains, Growing local
- Value chain analysis — how beans get form Guatemala to Costco. CIAT involved. Huge story.
- Brilliant. Via Aguanomics. Sky Vegetables.
Nibbles: ICTs, Dance, Information, Animal genetic resources
- Video on Web 2.0 applications in the development sector in Africa.
- Dancing with agrobiodiversity. Via. Thanks, Kev.
- New Agriculturist is out.
- China will “ban the export of genetic resources of newly-discovered, unidentified livestock and poultry breeds that are unique to the country.” Unidentified?
Nibbles: Seed hunter, Milk, Wine, Pollinators, Cacao, Berries
- Seed hunter hunts cash. Australians can watch on 21 October.
- Is selling milk retail really diversification? Alex thinks so.
- In vino variety. Jeremy sez: “Theft (of headline) is flattery”.
- Pollinator presence plummets. Luigi also sez: “Theft (of headline) is flattery”.
- Cacao Germplasm Evaluation and Characterization Project. Nuff said.
- Ribes redux.
Nibbles: Veal, Anatomy, Taro, Schwenkler, Genebanks
- “You have to find a wacky person when you are trying to rescue something in danger of extinction“.
- Fruit porn video from BBC.
- Hawaii sets up task force to save taro. Yeah that’ll work.
- John Schwenkler potpourri.
- Malaysian PM set right on seedbanks. Thanks, Choo.