Neglected species

Nibbles: Complementary conservation, Ash dieback, EUCARPIA meeting, AnGR, Green Revolution history, Fellowship, Canadienne cows, Sustainable intensification

So apparently field genebanks are “monotonous orchards packed with tropical trees spanning as far as the eye can see.”
Any ash genebanks, I wonder, field or otherwise?
EUCARPIA pre-breeding pre-meeting.
FAO moans about progress in conserving livestock.
The Green Revolution deconstructed.
Good news for procrastinators: the deadline for Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship applications has been extended to 18 November. Ignore the date of 11 November.
Saving the endangered Canadienne cow. In other news, there’s a Canadienne cow.
Friends of the Earth doesn’t think much of “sustainable intensification“.

Reminiscing at ICRAF about the history of (some of) the intellectual underpinnings of land sharing.
The latest agrobiodiversity musings from Hyderabad.
More reminiscing, this time from a GCARD2 social reporter.
Dogs, the first domesticates?
India links up its biodiversity databases. Including NBPGR’s?
Iron-rich beans hit Rwanda. Rwanda reels from the impact. How long before someone thinks of dumping them into the ocean?
“There will be no nice wine from Sweden this year.” Oh, dear.
Documenting agricultural biodiversity. In Italian. Maybe Italy will now follow India (see above)?

Today’s genome is cowpea, yesterday’s was barley.
Maybe tomorrow’s will be sorghum?
More on that guerrilla food atlas thing.
So there’s an annual okra festival, and there’s a podcast about it.
Archaeobotanist says recent big rice genomics study changes nothing, is misleading. Why don’t you tell us what you really think, Dorian?

Up to their knees in wasabi. And, loving it.
iPlant Collaborative’s Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) ver. 3.0 expands its coverage.
Marine bird e-Atlas goes live. Meah.
GFAR tweets about old videos. Must be a reason for it.
Podcast on using sweet potatoes in baby food. Might well come in useful more generally.
My friend Valerie and former employer SPC get a namecheck in story about world’s largest taro genebank.

Animal domestication is murder. Will someone tell ILRI? And the Maasai.
Indian home remedies at risk from nasty patents. I guess someone has been reading the Washington Post.
Agriculture started as a response to the need for large amounts of beer for feasts. Can’t think of a better reason. All the more weird that it seemed to go pear-shaped in Britain, then, after a good start. Maybe everybody was drunk?
The UK’s National Fruit Collection in the spotlight. So after that dodgy period, British agriculture did manage to get a grip, thank goodness. Probably for the cider.
Multiple copies of a gene needed for nematode resistance in soybeans.
PETting plants.
“Ten principles to apply at the nexus of agriculture, conservation, and other land uses.” And almost anything else for that matter.
Those ICRAF spatial databases explained.
Bhoo Chetana in India and, admittedly under another name, in Peru. Transformation often means reviving old ways.
Free posters of Top 10 plant-attacking nasties.