Nibbles

Nibbles: Bananas, Banana genome, Moringa, Hunger games, Deforestation, Digital herbarium, NTFP in Tanzania, CC in Tanzania, CC in Nepal, CC and Ceanothus, Potatoes, Fellowships, Fermentation

No bananas without soil nutrients.
Perhaps the back story to the banana genome can fix that.
Coupla big Moringa meets coming up in November.
Britain goes for gold in the jumping-on-the-Olympic-bandwagon-to-solve-global-hunger event.
And CEO of Cargill offers coaching: be flexible, try harder.
Deforestation in Guatemala and Belize. I love it when I can see geopolitics from space.
Help Kew digitise its diversity.
FarmAfrica celebrates non-timber forest products in Tanzania.
Which could be of interest to Tanzanian farmers who have experienced the future of climate change.
Nepali farmers say they’ve been hit hard by climate change.
But it is not the reason for the climb of the desert ceanothus.
Americans about to embrace colourful potatoes. Aren’t they always?
The 2013 Vavilov-Frankel Fellowships are now open. Apply here.
Seth Roberts says “I want to take this! Harvard class on fermented food.” Me too.

More US drought data and some insights into the drought’s impact: it’s affecting the Black Sea region too.
Another reason to improve childhood nutrition – it improves Olympic medal prospects.
Grist gets stuck into the GMO potatoes debate. It’s about diversity, Dummie. Not that anyone cares.
Brewing stone age beer. “The minor details make beer brewing exciting.” I’ll bet.
The long, straight dope on a food industrialist’s approach to better fast food.
Diversifying inputs increases Rwandan coffee farmers’ profits.

Discover taxonomic names in files, websites, etc…
Chinese genebank collecting wild species in Tibet.
Touring a non-government genebank. And running another one.
Not a community one, though.
Everybody talking about scaling up. Here’s how you do it. Probably need the media involved, right?
Scaling up did for the bison.

The National Fungus of Japan explains itself.
The aurochs recreated in fact and fiction. And more.
Yes, that’s what we need to make good on all those GM drought-resistance promises: a new model system. And now for something a little more serious.
Some protected areas don’t work terribly well. Here comes the science.
Darwinian Agriculture explained by the man himself.
Ancient diets deduced from teeth crap and crap crap.

You’ve heard of alternative lifestyles? Now read all about alternative pollinators.
Why should we spend money digitizing natural history collections?
Not all quinoa cultivars may be good for celiacs.
The largest comparative growth experiment ever. Hope some of the 600+ species are crop wild relatives.
Mangroves trap heavy metals. And sequester a lot of carbon. But they are moving. Thank goodness there’s lots of ways to value the services they provide.
CABI’s Plantwise Knowledge Bank is online.
Kew boffins blow up coffee. The genus, settle down.