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Category: Neglected species

Posted on May 7, 2008

Talking about neglected crops

AGFAX Radio was at the recent Arusha meeting on neglected crops and has a whole bunch of interviews online (with transcripts):

  • National treasures
  • International viewpoints
  • Nutritional benefits
  • Social aspects
  • Why Tanzania is ahead
  • Mighty baobab
  • From weed to cash crop: Amaranth
  • Improving the varieties
  • The farmer’s view
  • The market for underutilized vegetables

Don’t forget the follow-up e-conference is still on.

Posted on April 29, 2008May 1, 2008

Nibbles: Wheat, Sunflower, Synsepalum dulcificum, MDGs

  • Bumper wheat crop forecast. Norman Borlaug comments: “looming catastrophe”.
  • Sunflower may have been domesticated independently in Mexico, as well as in the Eastern US.
  • Neglected and novel? A cautionary tale about The Miracle Berry from the BBC. Via.
  • Hold the phone! World Bank says countries are not going to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Via.
Posted on April 19, 2008April 19, 2008

Non-wood forest products highlighted

The new NWFP-Digest is online, and as usual points to some great information, including lots of stuff on bamboo for some reason this month. And I don’t know how I missed the great article on women cashing in on indigenous trees in Tanzania when it first came out back in March.

Posted on April 18, 2008

E-discussion on neglected plants

Our friends at the Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Plants have informed us that CTA has helped them set up an e-forum to follow up the recommendations of the recent conference in Arusha. Do join in!

Posted on April 16, 2008

Pacific Island Food Leaflets

Lois Englberger has alerted me to the fact that my former colleagues at the SPC nutrition section in Noumea have put six new Pacific Island Food Leaflets online. Well worth a look. CTA helped with the funding.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Dr Fiona Hay, seed scientist, on why we need genebanks, including seed banks.
    2. Prof. Richard Ellis retires. A genebank legend, as Fiona would probably agree.
    3. FAO exhibition goes From Seeds to Foods. By way of genebanks, no doubt.
    4. And peasants, of course. No, it’s not a derogatory word, settle down.
    5. Can Green Revolution breeding approaches (and genebanks) help peasants deal with climate change?
    6. Even genebanks need a back-up plan though.
    7. New Mexico genebank helps out Danish chef.
    8. The history of the Concord grape and its foxiness. Chefs intrigued.
    9. The history of Aport and Amasya apples. No foxiness involved, as far as I know. Genebanks? Probably.
    10. The origin of caffeine. Now do foxiness.
    11. Where did collards come from anyway? No, not genebanks. Bloody historians, always re-writing history.

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