- Blogging machine Tom Barnett worried about effect of climate change on his favourite tipple.
- BGCI shell out for cool animation on social role of botanic gardens, and it’s totally worth it.
- As also, but differently, are IUCN’s videos on forest restoration.
- All the world’s forests, online, any day now, to monitor the opposite of their restoration.
- Europe tries to stimulate innovation in plant breeding. By holding a meeting. Ah, but there’s a hashtag.
- Development economists illustrate interesting point about gender and yam cultivation with photo of sweet potatoes.
- The organic attitude to inorganic nitrogen.
- Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers ate fish. Well I never.
- Reviews of couple books on agricultural origins.
- Need bioinformatics training? Who doesn’t.
- ICRAF reviews efforts to monitor sustainable intensification. Somewhere. I can’t for the life of me find the actual document.
Nibbles: Goats, Tomato clones, Wheat breeding
- Rwandan women receive gift of goats. Now all they need is to get over the taboo on drinking goat milk.
- Immortal tomatoes. Oh no! They’re clones! Eeeeeek!
- Breeding heat-tolerant wheats. Wonder whether they’ll be doing it with doubled haploids.
Nibbles: Cook with chia, Tacos
Slim-pickings edition.
- Five recipes for today’s new superfood, chia (aka Salvia hispanica).
- Ok, so maybe there’s also this: way more than five recipes for tacos, the breakfast of champions.
Nibbles: Botanic gardens & forest foods, Militants against IRRI, Modern ancient farm, Conservation software, Urban mowing sheep, Agro-ecology, Beans, Value of genebanks, Seed savers, Video
- Botanic gardens get into the restoration business. So that people can again eat nutritious forest foods. No, really, even the BBC says so.
- Militant Filipino NGOs target IRRI. Not for the first time. And probably not the last.
- Anyone planning to go to the Beltain at Butser Ancient Farm? Only a month to go…
- You are probably already using at least one of these.
- Paris looking to go all sheepish.
- I don’t know about you, but I immediately turn off when somebody says that X is the only answer to Y. Even when the X is agro-ecology.
- Même s’ils le disent en français.
- Chinese “board beans” are actually lablab shock.
- You going to spend an evening at The Genome Analysis Centre discussing the value of genebanks? Tell us about it!
- Dutch seed savers looking to get organized.
- New York times goes overboard for Digital Green participatory video.
Nibbles: Pigs, Wheat, Urban agriculture, Nutrition, Sago cakes
- A heart-warming tale of raising pigs the right way.
- Another heart-warming tale of breeding better wheat in Colorado.
- Urban agriculture goes intensive and corporate. Not very heart warming.
- Cornell students to solve nutrition problems in Ghana after 10-day visit. Is that heart warming? I have my doubts.
- Alfred Russel Wallace’s very own sago cakes preserved at Kew. If that isn’t heart warming, I don’t know what is.