- Rubber brings rage in India.
- Cassava brings beer in Brazil.
- Book on how foods go extinct.
- The Economist discovers good seeds.
- Why Study Plants? See above.
- The biodiverse botany of bitters.
- Rangeland management in the Great Plains: a timeline.
- I know, what we need is a Food System Vision Prize.
Nibbles: Big Shot edition
- CGIAR gets $650 million to help 300 million smallholder farmers in developing countries adapt to climate change. How much for the genebanks?
- Danone et al. bet big on crop diversity. How much for the genebanks?
- 27 global leaders tackle malnutrition across the world. What will they do for genebanks?
Nibbles: Baked beans, Romano-British diets, Roman butcher, Diet data, Israeli wheat, Radish podcast, Oyu Tolgoi, NZ genebank, CWR
- A very British baked bean.
- Hopefully it will prevent the sort of malnutrition for which there is archaeological evidence from Romano-British times.
- Although they did have lots of nice meat.
- “…differences in height by season of birth may not be due to climate-related fluctuations in nutrition or infections…” after all. No, not in Roman Britain.
- Recovering Israeli wheat landraces.
- Recovering a lost beer-snack radish.
- Will traditional Mongolian herding ever recover?
- New Zealand’s genebank in the news.
- The cool uses of potato wild relatives. And wheat too.
Nibbles: Jeanne Baret, Vigna, Musa, Indicators, Livestock, Oranges & lemons, Breadfruit, Seed warrior
- The story of the bougainvillea has a bit of everything.
- The story of the cowpea as told by its DNA.
- The banana has a really complicated story.
- Untangling the story of nutrition indicators.
- Telling the story of why livestock is important.
- The deep story of citrus.
- Another chapter in the story of breadfruit in Jamaica.
- Debal Deb tells his story in NY.
Nibbles: Colombian seeds, Seed diversity, Local crops & nutrition, Seed saving, Apple origins, Microbial collections, Dairy cows in USA, Bean sculptures, IPCC report, Potato linguistics, Piña cloth
- Climate-smartness and seeds in Colombia.
- Why do we need 158 varieties of cauliflower?
- Maybe it’s the nutrition? Gotta get those value chains working though: here’s how.
- Also, it will save the world.
- Biting hard into apple origins.
- Microbes need collections too.
- And cows.
- Inflatable beans. The jokes write themselves.
- Did I already link to my work blog post on the IPCC report?
- Papas or patatas? It’s…complicated.
- I want me a pineapple shirt.