- Climate change ain’t going to be good for cattle.
- But will be fabulous for breeders of drought-resistant maize.
- A fifth of Africa’s freshwater plants and animals threatened. How many of these are important to local people’s nutrition and health? A lot, I bet.
- Just a couple guys, modeling the spread of maize genetic diversity in the Americas.
- Uganda turns to wild relatives for new rice varieties.
- Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century recognizes importance of agrobiodiversity. Good to know.
- New Agriculturalist revisits veg-garden-in-a-sack.
- FAO policy brief on urban agriculture.
Nibbles: Irish Seedsavers, Australia, Trees, Wheat genome, Reforestation, Spices
- Irish Times does seed saving, well.
- Australia too considers genebanks. In depth.
- “[T]he largest private collection of wild trees in Britain.” All grown from seed.
- James and the Giant Corn gives you the straight dope on the wheat genome … so we don’t have to. Thanks.
- Swiddeners can help with reforestation?
- KIT tells us all about how to make spices sustainable.
Nibbles: Wild tomatoes, Brachiaria, Agroforestry, Syrian drought, Vegetable seeds, Durian
- How cool is it that a descendant of Charles Darwin is working on wild tomatoes on the Galapagos?
- More on the Brazilian “Economic Miracle.”
- Let my people plant trees on farmland!
- Trouble for Syrian agriculture.
- “The D. Landreth Seed Company has sold seeds to every president from George Washington to FDR.” And Obama?
- Views on the durian.
Nibbles: Biotech to the rescue, Chinese horses, Soybean carotenoids, CropMobs, Nutrition, Coffee pests, Varroa, Berries, NUS
- Genejockeys say they have sorted that global food supply problem everybody’s been so antsy about lately. No, wait, maybe it’s this.
- China has 23 indigenous horse breeds. At least.
- Latest crop to get the orange treatment is soybean.
- Diverse ways of doing agriculture: Could CropMobs go global?
- Choose foods, not nutrients. Heck, yes.
- Globally warmed beetles threatening your coffee crops? Bring on biodiversity!
- Brit breeds bees for better grooming.
- How to get the most out of your wild blueberries. Maybe we should tell Medvedev?
- Emerging Crops is a new NUS project, and it has a website.
Nibbles: CIFOR, Weeds, Camelids, Drought, Biofortification, Buckwheat
- CIFOR has a blog!
- Nice series of videos on eating weeds.
- Video on Peru’s “Andean rodeo.” You heard me.
- Africa needs drought-tolerant maize. Ok, fair enough, but here’s my question. Shouldn’t they have done this study before doing all that breeding? Oh, who knows, maybe they did.
- “Biofortification will thus remain relevant to poor rural populations in the years to come, as their incomes will still be far too low to afford a more diversified diet.” What? Who says a diversified diet need be expensive?
- Russia faces looming buckwheat crisis. At least the genetic resources are safe in the Vavilov Institute. Unless of course somebody decides to, I don’t know, build luxury villas there, or something.