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Nibbles: Milk-drinking, Diversity and stability, Indian sheep, Development of the African savannah, Teaching rice, Silk, Diverse diet, Huge phallic inflorescences

Der Spiegel does its usual impressive number, this time on the Völkerwanderung. Via.
Diversity and stability in grasslands. Yes, there’s a connection.
Sheep breeds in India deconstructed.
The future of the Guinea savannah. Probably not that great.
IRRI teaches Singaporean cityslickers to grow rice.
Silk beginning to fade where it was born.
The diverse benefits of an agrobiodiverse diet. Should someone tell rich Indians?
Tales of two giant inflorescences. What are the odds?

Pigeonpea gets the genomics treatment.
Animal genetic resources for the poor: “…one of the highest priority interventions for the smallholder systems is the development of innovative approaches for the strategic use of appropriate genotypes from the available range of global breed resources.”
How good is ecotourism?
Gapminder does per capita food supply.

Who says there’s no agricultural diversity in American supermarkets?

Indian academics voice some reservations about CBD ABS regime. Maybe a multilateral approach would be better?
CIAT warns about climate change effect on crops. Kenyan farmers know all about that. And Koreans too. Oh, and speaking of kimchi…
Beer proteome means better beer. Fundamental research indeed.
Cattle breeds are real. And the gaur?
Nepal inaugurates genebank.
San benefit from bioprospecting license for medicinal plant.
Ahmed Djoghlaf says…
Weeds? Not weeds. Cities as biodiversity hotspots? Oh I give up.
Orange cassava due to one amino acid.

From GBDBH, a light glimmers: browse and search records of crop collecting missions.
“Variations in early-season temperatures may alter substantially grapevine yield formation.” For Cab Sauv at any rate.
Mixture of beans as good as resistant variety against anthracnose disease.
Genome inversion spurs ecotypic differentiation.
A review of medicinal plant markets.
Today’s huge global dataset: “threats to human water security and freshwater biodiversity in global river systems.”