Neglected species

Nibbles: CBNRM, Extension, Seed systems, Climate change book and conferences, Cassava, Endophytes, Old Irish Goats, Plant Cuttings, Ethnobotany, Weeds

Designing the next generation of community-based natural resource management projects. No agriculture. Weird. Well, not so much actually.
Extension systems have a website! Yeah but do they need one?
Informal seed system working just fine in Indian Himalayas. So maybe the extension system is not needed? But, hey, they have a website, did I mention that?
Climate Change and Crop Production: The Book. And: The Conference. No but wait, here’s another.
The unusual crop that is cassava.Yeah, but in The Economist?
” …among the largest collections of endophytes…” Not a lot of people know that.
Old Irish goats (and others, to be fair) meet to talk about, well, Old Irish goats.
The great Plant Cuttings.
How to design an ethnobotanical garden. Would coca find a place?
Musings on the evolution of weeds.

AVRDC’s 30th International Vegetable Training Course Vegetables: From Seed to Table and Beyond.
Cameron Peace’s excellent presentation on genomics and fruit genebanks at the recent PAG symposium organized by NPGS staff Chris Richards (Ft. Collins) and Clare Coyne (Pullman).
Kew’s latest Samara newsletter does crop wild relatives.
Exploring the need for specific measures for access and benefit-sharing of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture. Results of a workshop.

When dog was on the menu.
Going far, and far back, for beer. And indeed yeast. Always worth the effort.
BBC launches Human Planet, focusing on “man’s remarkable relationship with the natural world.” Which apparently doesn’t include agriculture.
Mexicans eat many moth species, and not just the larvae.
Amazing interactive food atlas for the US. wish I had a use for it, but someone surely does.
Breeding a “better” Jalapeño pepper — to hold more cheese, natcho.
Food as politics; the tsampa-eaters of the TAR. h/t GOOD.

Rhizowen does DIY tissue culture to clean up his tubers. And fails. This time.
Farming First endorses biofortified sorghum.
Good fences make good farmers.
Is intercropping banana and coffee worthwhile in Uganda? “It depends,” sez Jeremy.

The Ethiopian Institute of Biodiversity has been up to something, but it is hard to be sure what.
IRRI is also up to something — Green super rice — but again it is hard to be sure what. Not golden at any rate.
CIAT picks its favourites from the State of the World 2011 report.
More than anyone has any right to want to know about the history and future of agricultural experimentation, but fascinating nonetheless.
The nutritive value and toxicity of grasspea and its relatives.
Milk may or may not provide some protection from malaria.
Nutrition advice, filtered for you. Jeremy sez “I like No. 6.”
Irish launch crop wild relatives website.
The feed quality of crop residues gets the treatment.