- Mapping Life is live. Will livestock and crops eventually be there?
- How Valuing Nature Can Transform Agriculture. Errr … dunno. Is this really brainfodder?
- A humble agronomist considers the de-commoditisation of quinoa in Bolivia.
- Bioversity says that forest restoration should make better use of genetic diversity.
Nibbles: Acorn harvest video, NordGen news, Kolkata Seed Festival, Peopling the Planet, Rye, Ancient Roman diet
- From little acorns…
- Thanks for sharing, NordGen!
- Thanks for sharing, Kolkata!
- Nature special issue on Peopling the Planet.
- Rye soundbites.
- How to eat like a Roman.
- Videos on India’s pastoralists.
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.
Nibbles: Hula skirts, Livestock at Rio, Sea buckthorn, Kenyan ag-blogs
- Grass skirts not made of grass shock. Nope, they’re made from cabbage palm. Ah common names.
- Farm animals set off on the road to Rio, kinda, sorta.
- Enthusiast cracks sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) propagation.
- The Bloggers Association of Kenya announces shortlist for Best Agriculture Blog.
Nibbles: Plant data, Wild relatives, Citizen science, Danish pig breed, Fruit names, Genebanks big and small, Taxonomy, Seaweed, Weather data, IPR training, Caribbean & Pacific, Potato research at Birmingham, Taro training in PNG, BioAreas
- 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
CanadaColorado. - 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.