Nibbles

Nibbles: Canadian genebank, Indian women farmers, Coconut videos, Willow catalog, Crop models & CC, Next GR, Caviar of Cantaloupes, Wild Bactrian, Dog history, Top 100 development questions

Video of the Canadian genebank.
First video in series on Indian women farmers: Bowing to No One, by Sarah Khan.
Whole bunch of coconut videos. See what I did there?
Good news for cricketers: willow variety catalog out.
The skinny of what crop models say about the effects of climate change. Spoiler alert: it ain’t good.
The latest call for a new Green Revolution.
Safe to say cantaloupes won’t feature much in that, which is a pity.
Maybe some other weird plants will, though.
Wild camels are pretty tough. And since we’re on the subject, what’s a heritage animal breed?
Wait, they solved dog domestication?
Top 100 development research questions for our SDG world, including ten on food security and agriculture.

The US is hiding meaty methane emissions.
What’s an Indian agricultural labourer earn? It depends …
The traditional year-end revisitation of the magic of myrrh.
A year end knees-up argument of whether the Irish are from the Caspian steppes or some other place.
The traditional harvest of odd non-potatoes, oca at year’s end, and oca at year’s beginning.
A convenient year-end summary of crop domestication, mostly rice.
Speaking of which, millets (and Jeremy) hit the big time.

Cassava in the spotlight.
Yeah but don’t forget your veggies.
Plus a tasty baobab dessert.
And of course you’ll need a glass of wine to go with such a nicely balanced meal.
Let’s bring all that together, shall we?
Before it’s too late.

Faba beans came before cereals in Galilee.
Wine is not quite so old in Georgia, but still pretty old. But will they be able to genotype it?
South Africa is a cattle melting pot.
Getting improved wheat out there in Ethiopia.
These seeds are definitely ready for their close-ups.
Speaking of close-ups: Amy Goldman has a new book out.
First forage clover genome. More and more difficult to think of firsts.