- A “grand, almost surreal vision” of coconut conservation.
- A grandish vision of ex situ crop conservation in Korea.
- A very down-to-earth vision of fruit conservation in Arizona.
- An extremely wacky vision of the post-agricultural world.
- A workmanlike vision of biodiversity for nutrition project.
- A musical vision of rice husking.
- A historical vision of food in the Middle Ages.
Nibbles: Malawi SNA, Growth, Sustainability, Farming carbon, Carnival history
- I know you’re just dying to see a Social Network Analysis of agricultural research in Malawi.
- Big cheeses say Economic growth alone won’t end hunger.
- Wendell Berry is taking a long-term view of the long-term land “emergency” in the US.
- The heck with food, say Oz ag wonks, let’s farm carbon.
- Hey, why doesn’t somebody do this for Berry go Round? (We’re way too busy.)
Nibbles: Vegetables, UK funding, Oz funding, Oz genebank, Jefferson, Hawaiian food, Markets, Tree seeds, NUS journal, Geographic targeting, ITPGRFA, Arabica and climate, Protected areas, European farmland biodiversity, Sustainable use, Ethiopian seed video
- Palestinian rooftop gardens. Including crucifers, no doubt.
- Brits support work with rice and wheat wild relatives. Among other things. They’ll probably use some of these genomics things.
- Aussies support sweet potatoes. HarvestPlus rejoices.
- That new Australian genebank. Will it have any sweet potatoes?
- The agricultural legacy of Thomas Jefferson. It doesn’t say here, but I bet he was into sweet potato.
- Hawaiian menus. What, no sweet potato?
- Forget biotech, the road to sexy agriculture is via the supermarket. Where you can buy sweet potato. Maybe even of the organic persuasion.
- Or maybe better tree seeds. Even in the Nordic countries. Or the US. Is cacao a tree?
- Plans for special edition of Sustainability on neglected crops. Like amaranth?
- Geographic targeting reaches roots/tubers. Using this newfangled atlas? Or no?
- Treaty and Consortium love-in filmed. Thanks for sharing. It’s all part of this CGIAR perestroika thing, no doubt.
- What that Kew coffee extinction paper really said.
- Protected areas need work. Especially for coffee (see above).
- Yeah but protected areas is not the only way to go, and Europe now has a bunch of biodiversity indicators for farmland. I guess it’s all part of some big plan.
- Policy brief on sustainable use of PGR. Or, as we used to call it, on farm conservation.
- Which you can kind of see happening here.
Nibbles: Chicken diversity, Pig genome, Genome size
- Breeders like chicken diversity. Blogger refrains from cock and chick jokes.
- Breeders will like the pig genome. Blogger refrains from sausage jokes.
- Size matters. In genomes, that is. Blogger quits while he’s ahead.
Nibbles: AIRCA lives, Graft mangos, Breed forage, Discuss seed laws, Overfish
Apologies for the lack of service; we’re a bit all over the map.
- The Association of International Research and Development Centres for Agriculture (AIRCA) comes a step closer. Smallholder farmers rejoice.
- Side grafting and informal scion exchange for fun and profit. Smallholder mango farmers rejoice.
- Annals of botany highlights strategies for forage and grass improvement. Forage breeders and livestock rejoice.
- European NGOs discuss non-paper on revision to seed legislation. Eurocrats see no reason to rejoice.
- German development agency goes large on small fish stocks, with added political goodness. Fisherfolk see no reason to rejoice either.