Neglected species

Nibbles: Environmental health index, Data visualization, Hungry World, Vegetables meeting, FFS, ICTs in ag, ILRI review, Devil’s claw, Cassava pests, Greek seed meet, Dolphins

“…the world’s first environmental health index to be based on long term historical data” not actually as interesting as it sounds.
Data porn. Aggregated. There oughta be a law… Speaking of infoporn, though, check out the third one here.
AlertNet site on Solutions for a Hungry World pretty but broken. Media alerted, so by the time you read this they may have fixed it and you won’t get Haiti no matter what you click.
Warwick meeting to look at vegetables and food security. You going? Will you tell us about it?
Farmer field schools in El Salvador. Diversification seems to be on the curriculum. But diversity?
And are they using — or being taught — ICTs?
ILRI reprises a high-impact article. And why not. Nice idea, actually. I may steal it.
Devil’s claw: weed or NUS? Both!
Cassava not such a Rambo after all? Heading for a quagmire in SE Asia.
Greek seed savers met a couple of weeks back. Where you there? Would you like to tell us about it?
Speaking of seeds, would you like to help save the D. Landreth Seed Company?
More social dolphins more likely to help humans fish. I wonder if the same for, say, ancient wolves.

Latest Plant Press has interesting stuff on botanical data of various forms. Always worth a skim.
CSA pamphlet on the importance of crop wild relatives. Why does this feel like a bandwagon? And how long to the backlash?
And talking of bandwagons, here’s the latest from the one on citizen botany. Does indigenous tree knowledge count as citizen science? How about indigenous weed knowledge?
And how about using your pet pig to reinvigorate a breed?
Interesting take on fruit variety names. Can we crowdsource an answer?
Everything about the opening of that new Mexican mega-genebank. Including the speeches. Nice-looking building, I must say. And from IRRI an example of a genebank from the other end of the scale in the Philippines. And similar, but different, from ~~Canada~~ Colorado.
Biodiversity bigshots beg for naming blitz. Better hurry. And don’t forget the soil.
Sargasso Sea coming ashore in Ghana is bad news for fisherfolk. Can they not eat it? Is it bad to ask that?
How to find your way around weather data.
Swedes to provide IPR training for PGR types.
Island nations from opposite sides of the world brought together by agrobiodiversity. Full disclosure: I’ve worked with both regional PGR networks and want to again.
Brits who worked on spuds.
And Wontoks who worked on taro.
Privatizing conservation.

Design guru talks botany. Latest plant getting the treatment is the Hawaiian Cotton Tree. Which, despite its name, really is a (remote) cotton wild relative.
What has Next Generation Sequencing ever done for me? And what you should know about how it works.
And here’s an example of it at work: different cultivated cotton species have behaved differently, genetically speaking.
That used ancient DNA, this one didn’t, but I guess a future one on chiles might. LATER: Ooops, just realized this is old. So what was it doing in my RSS feed?
Speaking of chiles, here’s a couple of more things on Native American agriculture.
Free access to the first issue of volume 20 of Journal for Nature Conservation for the next 12 months.
Rebuilding the genebank in Ivory Coast.
Discovering the wonders of the coconut. Their headline, not mine.
The latest news from the John Innes Centre’s genebank.
Fancy a tulip? To eat, that is.