Neglected species

Nibbles: Heirloom Auction, Flatulence, Trade, Swaziland, Turkey genome, Sorghum

The Art of Farming: How to fund heirloom veggies, NYC black-tie style.
Oregano to save the planet from bovine emissions.
Kew blogs “strange articles of trade“, all examples of agricultural biodiversity. How about them worms?
Swazi farmer breaks with grazing tradition to adapt to climate change.
Another day, another DNA “sequence”. The turkey.
Overselling popped sorghum? On YouTube.

The essential guide to the 10th Conference of the Parties to the convention on Biological Diversity. Unmissable.
Popghum? What genius came up with that name? And now that it’s big in Virginia, can Africa and Latin America be far behind?
Jeremy Bentham excoriates the Russian Federation on Pavlovsk. And gets it mostly right. Yes, that Jeremy Bentham.
Apparently water diversity is also a good thing for food security.
Climate change! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Huh!
“Plumpy’Nut is not a miracle cure for global hunger or for global malnutrition.” Say it isn’t so!
Never mind wheat, here’s the great buckwheat panic of 2010, kasha chaos.

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.

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.

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.