- Honeybees create a buzz in Nepal.
- Gene for silly equine walks.
- Men and Women Farming Together Can Eradicate Hunger. Headline says it all, really.
- We’re not the only ones wondering what’s going on at the 2nd global conference on agriculture, food security and climate change, which started yesterday.
Nibbles: Community gardens, Malnutrition in Peru, Good nutrition and longevity, Efficient conservation.
- A film about community gardens in the city of Washington DC.
- “Ricos en agrobiodiversidad, pero pobres en nutrición.” Huancavelica, in Peru, has plenty of agricultural biodiversity and plenty of malnutrition. Go figure.
- Good nutrition is more important than reduced calories for longevity, in rhesus monkeys at least.
- Conservation magazine reports that return on investment is the best guide to economically-efficient conservation. We ask … well, you know what we ask, right?
Nibbles: Aguaje, Super pasta, Banana battery, Tomato love, Tomato hate, Microgreens, NUS, Fortuneii, Coffee, Uran agriculture
- Today’s new superfruit. This one doesn’t surprise me.
- Tomorrow’s super-spaghetti. This one really baffles me.
- Today’s new source of bioenergy: bananas. Shocking.
- 50 ways to love your tomatoes. Turn ‘em to jam, Pam.
- One reason to hate tomatoes, for good bad muslims.
- Trendy micro greens are more nutritious. Get ‘em young, chum.
- “If they are so good, why are they not spreading on their own?” Crops for the Future gives NUS the third degree.
- Robert Fortune, pioneer biopirate.
- Forget oil, water and phosphorus. Peak coffee is as scary as it gets.
- How to save urban agriculture: by the numbers.
Nibbles: Kerala, Marker-assisted selection, Plant breeding for fun, Plant breeding for money, Benefit-sharing, Drought resistance
- If you’re interested in the history, traditions and cuisine of Kerala, this is the website for you.
- How about some whizz-bang technology to improve neglected and orphan crops?
- A blogger Tedtalks about participatory plant breeding in Wageningen.
- And get this: There’s big money in quasi-public sector plant breeding.
- “In the Coella and Combeima watersheds (Tolima, Colombia) the narrative of managing the commons is taking … a participatory shape.”
- The Scientist Gardener explores engineered drought-resistant maize and meets with Darwinian approval.
Nibbles: Consultation, Biofuels, Konjac, Ecosystem services
- CGIAR wants to hear from you. No, really.
- “[B]iofuels are the number one threat to global food security.”
- Zero-calorie noodles untangled. Some edible aroids just aren’t all that edible.
- Natural England reports on the ecosystem services of agricultural land.