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At the risk of annoying Dave Wood again, here’s something on agroforestry in Africa.
A podcast on what it takes to make parmigiano reggiano.
Speaking of Italian agricultural products, it’s not all sweetness and light.
But can you put purslane on pizza?
Funding breadfruit.
Community seed banks take off in India.
Kiribati will need some too. But in Fiji.
The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative is on Slideshare. Not much comfort for Kiribati, I suspect.

Crowdsourcing the Global Nutrition Report.
Which will not cover the Neanderthals.
Azolla genome project meets crowdfunding target, gets love from BGI.
Would that contribute to Evergreen Agriculture?
I bet breadfruit would, but New Scientist has put an article about that interesting tree behind a paywall. But, see this teaser…
Some people think the potato bean will.
Another genebank in Canada. Not crops, though, I suspect.
Saving the camel in Rajasthan.
ICRISAT gets a new DG.
Podcast on the history of American beer. Perfect note on which to wish you all a good rest of the weekend.

Move over Juan Valdez. Cacao farmers want to emulate a marketing icon.
Urban agriculture not all it’s cracked up to be. Living up to that urban ag icon, Cuba, is hard.
Bali’s iconic, traditional subaks are a complex adaptive system, and much better than modern rice farming alternatives. Makes you wonder why they need protecting, though.
GM bananas will save us. Not by themselves they wont. I don’t know why I keep linking to this stuff. Nothing at all iconic about it.
Iconic taxonomic revision tools online.
Something else that’s online is a bunch of tools for analyzing genebank data. Soon to be iconic, no doubt. As soon as people use them. So get cracking.
Huge BBC documentary on Kew coming up. I bet the iconic Millennium Seed Bank will feature.
Speaking of iconic genebank buildings, today’s one comes from Australia.
The history of an iconic Middle Easter tree?
The philosophy of an iconic Italian delicacy. Well, Neapolitan, really.
And in honour of the World Cup (I refuse to put FIFA in front, let them sue me), an iconic Brazilian dish. And don’t worry, those beans are safe. Somewhere iconic.

Yeah, on this climate change thing? We’re doomed.
Oh crap, there’s another genome: eucalyptus this time. Here’s the paper, you geeks. Great news for koalas, whose genome we still await, incidentally. Yeah, where are we with that?
SPC trains some breeders with Treaty money.
I wonder if they were told about Evolutionary Plant Breeding.
IFPRI has its new food policy report out. More on this later from us, I suspect.
The Bonn Titan Arum blooms! Well, I’m calling it a crop wild relative.
That gluten allergy? Don’t blame modern wheat varieties.
Podcast on the importance of genetic resources to sustainable forests.
Why rice? The Filipino view.
And the African view. NERICA’s good for women. And bad.
Bioversity blogs about World Cocoa Conference 2014, gets dates wrong. It’s on now.
Crop wild relatives in The Scientist. But I’m biased…
Busting malnutrition myths. Because they’re there.
There’s probably a few myths out there about halophytes too.

ICARDA DG breaks down barley research. Surprisingly without mentioning the germplasm collection.
Great interactive infographic of all the world’s trade disputes, many of which of course involve agricultural products.
Intensifying aquaculture comes with some risks.
Local doesn’t mean organic. And vice versa.
“Chickens are polymaths.” A new project will scratch around into the genetics of that.
Only Alaskan dog breeds are truly American.
Seed Savers Exchange busy making their seed happy.
Forest and language diversity go together. Literally.