Nibbles

Nibbles: Red List, Açaí, Edible forest, Horticulture, Heirloom seed bank, Malnutrition journal, Tea breeding, Speak!

Can cultivated species get their own Red List? Stefano Padulosi asks the tough questions.
Açaí: could the wonder fruit also be wonderful for forests? CIFOR asks the tough questions.
And more: You mean you can eat that?
Horticulture has rock stars? My turn to ask the tough questions.
Ok, so what US county is “…a hotbed of diversified, small-scale organic, natural processed food production”? Maybe not so tough.
Will there be a follow-up to Lancet’s 2008 series on malnutrition? That’s an easy one.
Luigi’s mother-in-law asks: Where can I get my hands on that drought-resistant tea?
Got any other questions? World Wide Views on Biodiversity wants to hear from you, this Saturday. (Answers too, I suppose.)

Stefano Padulosi of Bioversity tweets from the IUCN conference in Korea. And here’s another way of following proceedings: The Twitter Hub.
ICARDA forced to relocate.
Results of survey of farmer adaptation strategies in East Africa. (And CIFOR has more examples.) So why do they need Climate Analogues then? I mean, given what we know about it and all… Oh come on, it’s not as bad as all that, look they’re even using it in Costa Rica. Nobody likes a whiny user. Ok, ok, fair enough.
Branding not much use to farmers.
Kenyan banker agrees with my mother-in-law on the usefulness of trees.

Faidherbia albida gets another push. To quote from the recent Crops for the Future dissection of neglected/underutilized species: if it’s so good, how come it’s not used more?
The Indo-European roots of names for pulse crops. Not nearly as boring as it sounds. Oh, and since we’re on the subject…
Human biodiversity files: athleticism, foodism.
Huge EU project monitors pollinators. What could possibly go wrong?
Cleaning up DNA Sequence Database Hell.
Nice biodiversity hotspot maps. No plants. Definitely no agrobiodiversity.
A philosopher’s take on that organic agriculture meta-analysis.
Not Musa, but still edible.

National Heirloom Exposition coming up. Any of our readers going? Oh come on, one of our readers must be going!
Kew head honcho calls for a botanical New Deal.
WorldFish head honcho calls for an aquacultural New Deal.
A papyrus of recent botanical literature on ancient Egypt.
Coffee blogs to follow. Oh gosh, am I blushing?
Participants “gain more knowledge” at policy workshop. Of the ITPGRFA, that would be.
A couple of Chinese agricultural systems gain recognition as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage.

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.