- The botanist in the kitchen takes on the diversity of squashes. And pumpkins. And some gourds. So we don’t have to.
- Aren’t you glad we’re here to tell you that “Potato Beans” are Apios americana? Why do we even link to this stuff?
- Split peas split Jewish communities. Because it allows us to have fun.
- Like this: USDA grant condemns Bolivian peasants to eternal poverty but better nutrition.
- I see your allegedly neglected crop and raise you a really neglected one.
Nibbles: SRI, Zoophagy, Dogfood, Wetlands, Peach DNA
- More than you ever needed to know about SRI. Not just rice.
- Ditto eating the zoo. In 1879.
- Ditto the diversity of dogfood. There isn’t much, beneath the palatants.
- Ditto moving agriculture into wetlands. It’s risky.
- Ditto how very useful it will be to have the peach genome. For biofuels, natch.
Nibbles: Leaflets, IFPRI and CGIAR reamed, Locusts, Whisky, Backpacks for Africa, Yield drops, Oca, Fishy rice
- Speak French? Unaware? The Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research has leaflets for you.
- Indian writer bites the hands that feeds him. Well, somebody had to.
- Israeli eaters bite the pests that plague them.
- Debunking the mystery of whisky, the bastards. A muckle more detail here.
- Backpack Farm is in the news again. We still want to know, what’s in those backpacks, and how diverse are they.
- So you’ve been growing corn (maize) continuously and your yields are dropping precipitously? Scientists: Now we know why!
- Expert tells potato centre all about oca. Fact No. 1: it isn’t a potato.
- “Rice-fish cultivation produces environmental services.” What, in addition to rice and fish? Praise be.
Nibbles: Livingstonia, Fertilisers, Pineapples
- Dr Livingstone’s collection, I presume?
- Friday will be World Water Day. Use fertilisers more sensibly for a win-win.
- Catching up with old news — the coconut-flavoured pineapple — Nigel Chaffey has only one question: Yes, but WHY?.
Nibbles: Phylloxera, Nitrogen fixation, Famine, Biofortification, Heritage
- What more do you need to know about Phylloxera?
- A dangerous fixation? Not us. Slate does nitrogen.
- What do zombies eat when they run out of brains, and other responses to famine.
- India’s government does the needful and embraces biofortified staples. Wish them luck.
- “Let’s turn the clock back 4,000 years.” Good idea. Now we have the time to read Agricultural heritage across the millennia.