Another reason to eat those orange bananas (and sweet potatoes).
African food online
Two Kenyan plant breeding students, Arthur Karugu and Felix Waweru, have a website ((According to a Nation article which seems to have disappeared.)) which “provides information on African foods, recipes, restaurants that sell them that and nutritional advice.” They are planning to develop it into an e-commerce platform for small farmers:
Farmers undergo many problems in marketing their products. They need a market link, and we are ready to facilitate that for them, says Waweru…
Best of luck to them. The website is called Try African Food, and it’s got a blog, a roundup of news etc. I’ve subscribed to their feed and will definitely keep and eye on it. Thanks to Kijo for the headsup.
New GFU publication
Geographic indications to the rescue of agrobiodiversity.
Economic diversification in Guatemala
Who knew? Via The Lubin Files, news that FAO has a channel on YouTube.
Oliver Stone unavailable for comment.
Lost pepper found
Via Buddhism Adjunkt, who is back after a little absence, a link to an article on The Lost Pepper of Cambodia, by Phil Lees. Unfortunately the article, in Chile Pepper magazine, won’t be available online for at least six months. So all I can do is quote from Phil’s tantalizing blog entry:
What does the visit of Chinese emissary Zhou Daguan to Angkor Wat in 1297, Khmer Rouge kidnappings and the recent landgrabbing of Okhna Ly Yong Phat in rural Sre Ambel, Cambodia have in common?
Cambodian pepper: which is how I tenuously link them all together in this month’s Chile Pepper magazine (US).
That, and hope I remember to check Chile Pepper when the six months are up. Or maybe someone else can enlighten us?