- People are ready with their reactions to the Great EU Seed Law Thing.
- Bananas seem ready once again for their decadal extinction story.
- Those nice people saving crop wild relatives are ready with a new Twitter account to follow.
- The wheat diversity of Nepal will soon be ready for science.
- And The Boston Globe is ready with its own story about seed libraries.
Nibbles: Banana, Seed law
- “How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit.” Eye-popping headline, but I can see what they mean.
- “We won! EU parlament [sic] rejects seed regulation!” Hmmmn.
Nibbles: Mango, Money, Holy guacamole
- “Top 8 Wonderful Things You Can Do With A Mango.” Kenyan clickbait. I bought it.
- “Third Call for Project Proposals under the Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund.” Seed Treaty clickbait. I’m not qualified.
- “Guacapocalypse” — a headline to reckon with. Here’s the back story to climate change and avocados.
Nibbles: Climate change and Haiti, Climate change and aid, Mushroom farming in Kenya
- 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.