Medicinal plants

Nibbles: Livestock methane, Afromontane medicinal tree, Afromontane bananas, Acacia

Not much better today on the nibble front. Jamaican and Chilean medicinal plants.
And an interesting approach to the social marketing of local produce. iFarmers.
Saving chocolate, the high- and low-tech ways.

Sustainable alternative to opium. Still waiting for my man.
“Crop Wild Relative community calls for united global efforts“. Good to know.
Small-scale coconut growers to benefit from Kasaragod Declaration?
Australian farmer doubles number of species, doubles yield shock.
Plant health clinics take expertise where it is needed most. Now for the mobile edition …
Crowdsourcing improvements to a portal to genetic information. Now there’s an idea.

A view from Papua New Guinea on a project to prepare PNG agriculture for climate change.
How to grow a properly biodiverse pasture. Hint: money isn’t enough.
Another Nagoya round-up. And another.
Sesamum monographed.
Award for CIMMYT genebank.
African rice domestication deconstructed.
Traditional practices bad for Nigerian children, good for Chinese fish.