Nibbles

Nibbles: Potato blight, Ag statistics, Biofortification, Biofortified potatoes, Insect food, Genuine mozzarella, Agricultural history

Breeder of blight-resistant potatoes stands up for gardeners who grow blight-susceptible potatoes.
Hungry for better ag statistics? FAO hears you.
“Biofortification is an obstacle to food justice”. Just an opinion, obviously.
And not necessarily one shared by the USDA: Breeding better fruits and veggies, including vitamin-A enriched potatoes.
Women, gardens, community health … we’ve heard this all before. So why is it still news?
Diana Buja shares tips on how to catch flying ants, and other goodies, the better to savour their deliciousness.
A beginner’s guide to everything called pepper.
A new test for cow’s milk in mozzarella di bufala, can also separate the sheep from the goats. Can I get a pocket version?
The transition to agriculture in North America.

Here’s a turnup for the books: kill weeds in many different ways to prevent the evolution of resistance.
The Society for the Conservation of Mango Diversity. my kind of society.
“The overall aim of the IICI is to bring improved crops that yield more per acre, are richer in essential nutrients and resistant to disease, insects and drought to small farmers in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.” Can I go home now?
Extinction news: If the heat don’t get you, the hunger will.

Reminiscing at ICRAF about the history of (some of) the intellectual underpinnings of land sharing.
The latest agrobiodiversity musings from Hyderabad.
More reminiscing, this time from a GCARD2 social reporter.
Dogs, the first domesticates?
India links up its biodiversity databases. Including NBPGR’s?
Iron-rich beans hit Rwanda. Rwanda reels from the impact. How long before someone thinks of dumping them into the ocean?
“There will be no nice wine from Sweden this year.” Oh, dear.
Documenting agricultural biodiversity. In Italian. Maybe Italy will now follow India (see above)?

Oh gosh, it was Tree Diversity Day and nobody told us.
Bioversity catch up with their own cacao strategy.
And IFPRI has a new one for you to comment on.
Caribbean agriculture gets another signed document to help it along. No word on whether agrobiodiversity featured.
Mango conservation gets organized. But not to the extent of an RSS feed, alas.
California owes Morocco for its olives.
Virus-resistant cassava imminent. Haven’t they been saying this for a while now? And is anyone thinking about what will happen to the virus-susceptible varieties?
Push-pull in the news.
The cost of everything, and the value of nothing, nature edition.
What’s the value of Arabidopsis, then?

Today’s genome is cowpea, yesterday’s was barley.
Maybe tomorrow’s will be sorghum?
More on that guerrilla food atlas thing.
So there’s an annual okra festival, and there’s a podcast about it.
Archaeobotanist says recent big rice genomics study changes nothing, is misleading. Why don’t you tell us what you really think, Dorian?