Nibbles

Nibbles: Seed Treaty, Grelo festival, Large tomatoes, Saffron collecting, Enset redux, Grassland diversity, Census 2016, Organic definition, Dalit seeds, Ancient wheat DNA, Ancient American farmers, Tree adaptation, Syrian crops at OFN

What civil society said at the latest Governing Body meeting of the ITPGRFA earlier this month.
Google Translate fail puts spotlight on the cruciferous crop I’ve always known as fiarielli but which is sometimes called rapini. Both names kinda suck.
That’s one huge tomato.
That’s one expensive spice.
Rediscovering enset.
Grassland biodiversity good for resilience to climate change.
Global agriculture: here comes the data.
Deconstructing organic. The word, that is.
Empowering dalit farmers by recognizing their knowledge of seeds.
That ancient underwater wheat DNA wasn’t so ancient after all. Maybe.
It was migrants who forced the ancestors of the Pueblo people to move.
Local adaptation in trees: what has it ever done for us?
Another way to safeguard Syrian crop diversity.

Seed Hunter visits genebank. Not many people hurt.
I’d like to visit this Corn Palace.
Rice domestication: not once, not twice, three times. Well, really, who’s to say maybe even more than that? Maybe even in Australia?
Solomon Islands cacao wins award. Looking forward to tasting it one day. But is it certified?
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Giveaway.
Researchers hoping to science the shit out of threat to Thanksgiving.
Genetic resources and gastronomy in Brazil.
Pineapple gets a genome.
Sunflower saves soybean? What wizardry is this?

Svalbard among things being discussed at EATx Cali today. Who knows, maybe other genebanks too?
The cucumber’s wilder relatives.
Armenian wine going back to the future.
Whole grains deconstructed.
Unpicking domestication in chickens and cattle. And the original paper on the latter, featuring the aurochs genome.
Breeders have bred omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) out of soybeans, but are now going back to wild relatives to breed it back in.

Building a better Hayward kiwi.
Adapting to Nagoya.
But if the Treaty works, maybe you wont need to. And that includes farmers’ rights, of course.
The Caucasian Spinach is a new one on me, but I’d try it.
Eating insects is safe. But I suspect that was never the issue.
What have patents ever done for us?
Europe’s forests are in a state. See what I did there?
Yes, it’s time for this year’s seasonal “wild rice” story.
The non-meat future of protein.
Does bread even have a future?
Well, how would you describe an apple? Maybe by use? In the meantime, Tom “The Appleman” Adams is taking the next step.
Dog domestication explained.
Nice map of what climate change will do to crops. Spoiler alert: it’s not good.
The beauty of seeds.

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