- Meaty presentation on how biodiversity in the food system delivers a diverse diet. Could hardly fail to, really, could it.
- What’s a diverse diet ever done for me, asks ancient farmer.
- Vegetables an important part of diverse diets, of course. Especially in urban areas.
- Interesting EU project on the phylogenetics of medicinal plants. Any vegetables in there?
- Improved cowpeas only improved when farmers know they are improved. Wow.
- Some glimmers of hope on adaptation? Maybe.
- Not all livestock bad for climate change. And room for improvement on those that are.
- Yeah, but who cares, global warming is just a giant natural fluctuation, no? No.
- Legalize it, already! Poppy cultivation as a climate change adaptation measure?
- Australian agriculture unprepared for climate change? With all these fancy breeders and access to the world’s genebanks?
- Meanwhile, in China, the focus is on food sovereignty.
- And in Japan on its spaced out cherry tree.
Nibbles: Forests and food, Baobabs
- “Will Increased Food Production Devour Tropical Forest Lands?” A long condensed version of an even longer answer.
- Baobabs hybridise rather freely. Time to edit all those factsheets?
Nibbles: Borlaug, Wheat history, Plant breeding, Nepali tomato
- The Borlaug 100 conference programme now has links to many of the presentations.
- Including a link to Rachel Laudan’s history of Wheat: the grain at the center of civilization.
- Oh boy. A new edition of FAO’s Plant Breeding & Genetics Newdsletter.
- Video on “Reviving Nepal with hybrid tomatoes“. So many questions, so few answers.
Nibbles: Intensification, Wheat, Bees crisis
- Liberation: Proof, if proof were needed, that what you really need to snaffle EU funding is an acronym.
- Not just yields but nutritional value of staple crop threatened by climate change.
- Bee crisis still bad news for agriculture.
- Bee crisis still good news for researchers.
Nibbles: Citrus in Italy, Banana genebank, Post-2015, Wheat Yield Partnership, Kenyan seed company, UC Davis symposium, Dingo genetics
- The history of citrus in Italy.
- The Independent visits the global banana genebank and still doesn’t figure out that there are no seeds there.
- Rome-based UN food agencies come up with post-2015 food security and nutrition targets. Not many people hurt.
- The wheat people have the answer.
- Going where no seed company has gone before.
- UC Davis Plant Breeding symposium to feature CIP genebank stalwart.
- The dingo is different.