Nibbles

Nibbles: Kenyan water, Peruvian diets, Kazakh horse meat, Orchard diversity, Rubus ID, Baltimore

Kenya goes gung-ho for agrobiodiversity to make better use of scarce water.
Peru enacts Law for the Promotion of Healthy Eating by Boys, Girls, and Adolescents to a mixed reception.
Sent to Kazakhstan, a food writer thrills to dietary diversity in Almaty (without once mentioning apples).
Holistic orchard conversion. “Turning an orchard from a lawn with fruit & nut trees in it into a purpose-built meadow with fruit & nut trees in it.”
“Preservation of cultivar purity is a particular challenge for plants that are self-incompatible, and have easily germinating seeds and vigorously spreading rhizomes.” Amen.
You’ve seen The Wire? Now read about The Duncan Street Miracle Garden.

Why blogging has been light this week. And also, which resulted in this. Thirsty work …
Which is why I love our new hosts (see above).
There’s gotta be some of these around here.
I know there’s a lot of these. And I have to say I prefer the beer.
And as for the sort of things this guy made…
I wonder how many crop wild relatives there are around here though.
Or salmon.
Ok, that’s all from here for now, but see you again soon.

Nice piece from NPR on the coffee genebank in Costa Rica and the importance of breeding for resistance to coffee rust. Where’s the diversity for that going to come from, you ask?
Weird piece from NPR on why humans took up farming. Hard to swallow.
At least in India and Uganda, men and women use trees differently, and have different access. Good to know.
“David Byrne receives national 2013 Carroll R. Miller Award for peach research.” Settle down! Not that David Byrne.

Genebank saves beer!
Not so fast…
So, lets get back to basics shall we, and the dawn of brewing, recreated (again).

Slow Food and FAO join forces “to develop joint actions to improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and others working in rural areas”. What could possibly go wrong?
Five ways to enjoy a walnut. But not until next harvest (except for 1 and 2)
A Pan-Hellenic Seed Exchange Festival took place last weekend. Sorry we missed it.
A revision of the Dulcamaroid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae). Oh boy! Wild relative heaven.
If you’re in Suffolk, England, on 25 May you could join a study visit about agroforestry. And tell us about it here.
Fascinating write-up of Ajay Jha, whose “primary objective is to find profitable models for sustainable, nutritious, local urban and small acreage food production”.