- IFPRI tackles the agriculture-nutrition disconnect in India.
- Makanaka tackles the fact-assumption disconnect in future food needs.
- Jeremy admits to disconnect between his knowledge and World Pollinator Week.
- Spain’s economic crisis connects communities to gardens.
- Local farmers connect to local inputs; everyone benefits.
Nibbles: CWR video, Super barley, Banana fermentation, Cerrado, Indian genebank sell-off farrago, Pistacia, Potato disease
- Al Jazeera discovers wild relatives.
- The Scotsman discovers the laws of heredity.
- Diana uncovers banana beer.
- Rio +20 hacks discover the cerrado.
- Indian genebank discovers the market?
- JSTOR uncovers the pistachio.
- Scottish potato farmers discover new nemesis.
Nibbles: ITPGRFA, Samoan coconuts, Ancient Amazon, Moringa
- CGIAR pushes ITPGRFA into Rio +20 limelight. ITPGRFA unavailable for comment.
- Recession or no recession, Samoan women’s group in Body Shop coconut oil deal.
- Pre-Columbian Amazon not densely inhabited after all. Just wake me up when they sort this out.
- Ok, where do I get my hands on some Moringa leaves?
Nibbles: Gathering, Tubers, Quinoa, Africa-American heirlooms, Deforestation
- Edible weeds, anyone?
- Nope, Slate says the answer is tubers. And they may have a point.
- But Evo Morales thinks it’s quinoa.
- Meanwhile, Ms. Kimble cultivates her vegetable garden.
- And Luigi enticed by new mapping tool to explore deforestation on Sumatra.
Nibbles: Transitions edition
- Maize geneticist and forage breeder among USDA’s Agricultural Research Service Scientist of the Year winners.
- BBC man lands top Kew job.
- Elinor Ostrom RIP.
- If the wormwood don’t get you, the groundsel will. A tale of two wild Asteraceae.
- Foxtail Millet Offers Clues for Assembling the Switchgrass Genome. So that’s what millet is good for.