- The Brazil nut needs its pollinators.
- How USDA protects plant varieties.
- American dogs are Asian, not European.
IndiaNepal working out how to implement the ITPGRFA.- Kerala’s vegetable terrace gardeners.
- Haven’t heard much about Ug99 lately, have we? Doesn’t mean people aren’t keeping a careful eye on it.
- Climate change 10,000 times faster than vertebrate evolution.
- Why quinoa is not “taking over the world.”
- Not even New Zealand. Though not for want of trying.
- In the meantime, soybeans taking over Africa?
- Aquaculture that’s sustainable and ancient. Includes taro fish ponds, which for some reason seem to me cool beyond measure.
Nibbles: Bahamian pigs, Llamas far from home, Ugandan aquaponics, Better broccoli, African atlas, Chinese sesame imports, Root & tuber maps, NZ genebank access
- The next big livestock thing is swimming pigs.
- Or maybe llamas. Not swimming ones, mind, settle down.
- Nope, it’s farmed fish. Which do swim, though not very far.
- Meanwhile, Cornell re-engineers broccoli.
- And HarvestChoice puts out an African atlas. Online resources coming in due course.
- Which does not show you sesame cultivation in Ethiopia, alas, at least not yet, let’s wait for the online version.
- Speaking of atlases, RTBMaps is in Beta. I’ll have to play with it and get back to you.
- New Zealand changes genebank rules to speed up forage breeding. To do with quarantine rather than ABS, though.
Nibbles: Tree ID, Pyramid scheme, Looking ahead, Fun with mould, GM wheat, Sinai reclaimed
Stuff that’s been sitting around while I’ve been lying on a beach:
- Speaking of apps for agriculture, here’s one that identifies North American trees.
- R. Ford Denison spots the weakness in an afro-forestry get-rich-quick scheme.
- Public Radio International has a big series on feeding the 9 billion — and wants photos of your lunch.
- I’ve no idea why people are squeamish about smut. Huitlacoche is my personal favourite among Smithsonian MAG’s Four Fungi Fit For Your Plate.
- No idea what’s happened lately to Monsanto’s GM wheat fiasco. Is the US National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation off the hook?
- And something old yet new: reclaiming the Sinai for agriculture by reviving an ancient river.
Nibbles: CePaCT aroids, Chinese pigs, Vanuatu banana processing, Yam meeting, AAB meeting, Araucaria, Aquaculture, Malting barley, CIRAD baobab videos, US wine, Ancient grains, Barcode centre
- The Pacific pushes out its taros.
- China holds on to its pigs.
- Vanuatu preserves its bananas.
- The world talks about yams in particular. And crop breeding in general.
- How Britain got its monkey puzzles.
- Bangladesh goes for mola culture. But not only.
- Australia puts money into beer.
- France gets into the whole baobab factsheet thing, but with a video twist.
- Virginia makes wine. With infographic goodness.
- UK tries to slow down its food.
- Canada barcodes everything.
Nibbles: Urban agriculture edition
- Urban Agriculture Edition. New Orleans, with a twist.
- Tokyo.
- Los Angeles.
- By design.
- Sydney.
- Detroit.
- Vintage.
- Very early.
- Not.