- You say potatoes, I say tomatoes; either way, the blight gonna get them. LATER: Ok, there was a second link to Rodale.com from “tomatoes”, but that seems to have disappeared, and here’s the story on that, thanks to Jesse.
- A huge haul of links to current articles about the drought in the US, and much else besides.
- And a smattering of ideas that farmers could adopt to improve production and conservation, in the US and perhaps elsewhere too.
- Speaking of which, goodish – or not-so-bad – news on food prices.
- Longhorn cattle: a selection of good-looking pictures. ILRI to flood Flickr with African longhorns?
- Good-looking beans find favour with Ugandan farmers.
- UK curry eaters looking forward to climate change, the fools.
Nibbles: Social CRP, Coconut genebank, Rice breeding, Conservation debate, Mongolian herders, American chestnut, Marine conservation
- CGIAR Research Programme on Roots, Tuber and Bananas gets a blog to go with its Facebook page and Twitter feed.
- Coconut clones? I don’t think so.
- Rice yield gene? I don’t think so.
- NY Times hosts a debate on conservation, and genebanks get a look-in.
- Mongolia’s reindeer herders get some advice.
- “My great grandfather’s legacy is something I grew up knowing and respecting, but my parents’ conservation ethic is something that I have always lived.”
- Marine reserves can be good for fish. And abalone?
Nibbles: Wild goat, Heirlooms, Queen’s garden, Baobabs, Bison demise, Friendly yeast, Peruvian potatoes, Saline rice
- Old goat redux.
- A really nothing piece in the Washington Post about heirlooms.
- This is more like it: take home the Queen’s heirlooms. Well, almost.
- Here’s a baobab truly worthy of a factsheet.
- It was international trade that wiped out the bison.
- Fundamentals of On-Farm Plant Breeding Course: The Video.
- Another use for yeast.
- The Parque de la Papa highlighted. But doesn’t say seeds are even going to Svalbard.
- Salinity tolerance in rice: in Goa, and at IRRI.
Nibbles: Aphrodisiacs, Food Security, Access & Benefit Sharing, Berry Go Round, Weeds, Restoration Ecology, Opuntia, Sustainable cacao, Innovation
- The rich diversity of aphrodisiac foods. Is it February again?
- Why bother doing it myself when someone else had already stuck the knife in The New Statesman.
- Making the Nagoya Protocol work at the community level. I know, let’s have a meeting. But will the ISF be invited?
- June’s Berry-go-Round botany blog carnival is up, with a few relevancies:
- Weeds revisited and rejoiced in.
- A hero of restoration ecology remembered and refound.
- The prickly pear as metaphor is apt and appropriate.
- How green is the cacao industry? This green.
- Yeah but does it qualify as an innovation system?
Nibbles: Climate predictions, Melon sequenced, Banana adoption, CRP networking, Supply chains, NUS value chains, Climate change good
- Rave from the grave… If the endless summer don’t get you, the nuclear winter still will.
- To him that hath… Spaniards bag Euro cup and their first DNA sequence: melon.
- Build a better banana… And you still need to persuade farmers to beat a path to your door.
- Well, maybe a Facebook page will help: roots, tubers and bananas go social.
- Oxfam advice on protecting your supply chains from endless summers and nuclear winters.
- Which might be useful for this training course. But are value chains the same as supply chains?
- Or it might not.