Neglected species

Nibbles: Cassava bad and good news, Soybean domestication, Bitter gourd, Drought, Agrobiodiversity job, Heirloom turkey, Eurisco, Artisanal wheat, MSB, Food culture

FAO really very worried about cassava. Does it know that the CGIAR has the technology?
In today’s “crop X domesticated earlier than usually thought” story, X = soybean.
The Deccan Chronicle discovers the Bitter Gourd Project and likes what it sees.
How to drought phenotype crops.
The Christensen Fund has a position open for a Program Associate – Agrobiodiversity and Biocultural Landscapes. Damn, that sounds interesting.
“But, miraculously, the Ghost Turkey survives.”
Eurisco has a new website!
Artisanal wheat on the rise. I love the quip in the caption.
Vancouver ♥ Millennium Seed Bank, and fawns over faux royalty.
Amaranth and pizza offer entreés to culture and politics.

After yesterday’s thing on gum arabic, CIFOR’s blogger weighs in on frankincense and myrrh. Gums and resins renaissance, anyone?
VoA on the ITPGRFA, with interview goodness.
Soy sauce in bullet points.
A Spanish food historian’s deconstruction of the Mediterranean diet deconstructed by Rachel Laudan.
Fish in paddies: here comes the science.
Côte d’Ivoire to revive cacao cultivation. By building a research centre?
Pleasant, cultured and not so short foray into the history of the sugar industry in Kenya and Mauritius.
You say sweet potato. I say yam.
You say yam, so does Rhizowen, and yet … he’s talking about neither Ipomoea nor Manihot.
Urban agriculture thriving in DR Congo.

Interview with the Secretary-General of Gum Arabic Council. In other news, there’s a Gum Arabic Council.
Gosh, is that really all there is today?
Ah yes, here’s something more, sago cultivation in Indonesia.
And the ongoing search for the world’s hottest chilli pepper.
Neil’s got apples in Himal Pradesh, an enriching response to climate change.