- CIAT examines the climate change options for coffee and mongo in Haiti.
- Edward Carr reckons that from an aid donor’s perspective, adapting agriculture to climate change isn’t such a great idea.
- Neither has anything to say about this how-to guide to mushroom farming in Kenya.
Nibbles: Seeds for Needs, Agroecology, Costa Rican climate change, Pollinators
- IFAD and Bioversity, sitting in a tree …
- Don’t mimic nature on the farm.
- But don’t ignore it either. Learn from nature.
- Costa Rican farmers have done both, to adapt to climate change.
- There’s no imitating pollinators though.
Nibbles: Resilience conference, Farmer conservation, Goat smell, grape genes
- If you were thinking of registering for Resilience 2014 in Montpellier, you better get your skates on. It closes on 10 March.
- UK pays farmers to conserve biodiversity – but not crop biodiversity.
- Eau de goat is “citrus-scented” shock.
- A web-based resource to understand the 30,000 genes that make grapes.
Nibbles: Frances Seymour, She don’t lie, PNG coffee, Rony Swennen, Corridors, Eating bugs, Potato breeding
- Former CIFOR DG interviewed about Global Forest Watch and more. I would have asked why you can’t import your own data or share a map you make.
- A particularly important place to watch the forest is Honduras, because deforestation there is correlated with cocaine trafficking.
- Not clear from this World Bank piece if deforestation in PNG associated with cultivation of another drug, i.e. coffee.
- Better bananas would be good for forests, wouldn’t they?
- Bah, just let them have corridors, they’ll be fine.
- And don’t forget to eat the forest bugs.
- Ok, I can’t figure out how to fit the history of potato breeding into this narrative. Any of it organic, though?
Nibbles: Brazil agrobiodiversity & nutrition, Chinese mummy cheese, Grey forest literature, ICRISAT chickpea, CIAT cassava & forages, Jamaican cassava
- Brazil revises its National Biodiversity and Action Plan and wants to mainstream biodiversity and nutrition.
- That’s a really old cheese.
- Are you conducting projects testing how the presence of trees affects food production and natural resource management? CIFOR would like to hear from you.
- ICRISAT super-chickpea takes over India.
- And CIAT amylose-free starch cassava to take over Brazil. China next?
- Red Stripe to use cassava. Jamaica? No, they really did want to make cassava beer. Well, come on, things are peachy with cassava bread, why not beer?