It is possible there may be too many ethical cocoa schemes out there. There’s Fairtrade and the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership. And the Good Inside Cocoa Programme, with Mars and Nestle on board. Is it all getting a bit too complicated? Do we have too much of this good thing?
Of rats, bamboo and semelparous mass flowering
Over at Ecosystem and Poverty, our friend and occasional guest contributor Andy is asking whether anyone has a use for bamboo flowering culms… BTW, thanks for linking to our latest posts, Andy.
More potato salad
Never rains but it pours, part 37. Local newspaper article on the US potato genebank.
More on Columbian Exchange
Columbus not responsible for lice.
Iriomote cat threatened
Not that close a relative of the domesticated cat, but still interesting, and in trouble.