Nibbles

Nibbles: Aquatic mapping, Biofortified millet, Indian agriculture, African agriculture, Restoration, Online flora, Farm Bill, Right to Food, Elk farming, Forestry fellowship, Breadfruit, Foods and climate change

OBIS maps marine organisms. But does it include this data from China?
Private sector delivers biofortified millet. But will it make it to the wiki for Indian agriculture?
New paper by APRODEV and PELUM on why CAADP should follow IAASTD. Glossary not included. And more on African agriculture from Gates. Not like this, though.
Millennium Seed Bank in ecosystem restoration. And a study on ecosystems that are actually going to require less restoration than others.
Monsanto supports online world flora. What could possibly go wrong? Meanwhile, in the public sector…
Olivier de Schutter’s recent Right to Food shpiel for IFPRI. LOTS of words. I guess you had to be there.
Small-scale elk farming primer. Not as crazy as it sounds, but pretty crazy.
And if you’re a young scientist, from sub-Saharan Africa, and interested in forest genetic resources, well, here’s a fine forestry fellowship opportunity.
The Bounty Redux. The whole bringing-breadfruit-to-the Caribbean thing seems to be going more smoothly this time.
Huffington slideshow on the world’s endangered foods.

June 18th. If you’re tired of the Copacabana, why not go to the seminar on Achieving and measuring sustainable intensification, and tell us how they did it.
India is the world’s largest “beef” exporter. Why the scare quotes? Read the No 2 story here.
I wonder how much beef of the dwarf cattle in Albania and Greece is exported. The SAVE Newsletter is always great fun.
Alaskan importing heirloom seeds from equally frigid parts of the world.

Maize diversity sliced and diced to within an inch of its life.
Mapping invasives sometimes = mapping crop wild relatives. Compare and contrast.
Red List hits 20,000 species.
And yet we keep finding new ones, even in Europe.
Reconstructing a Korean dog breed.
You too can help IUCN with its genebank guidelines.
Video history of ginkgos. “Are we watching them as they evolve, or are they watching us?”
Video history of Navajo sheep. Touching.
Malaysian forest tree genebank at work. Any ginkgos in it?
Hurry! You have 2 days to apply for a Training course on Food Systems: From Agronomy to Human Health, in Benin.

Coconut origins, the quick version.
Chile gets a bugbank.
Stay-green barley genes located. In a genebank collection, natch. What now, a Stay-green Revolution?
New Economist blog agnostic about Millennium Villages.
Plant scientists call for $100 billion investment in, er, plant science.
Wheat pedigrees online.
IITA a youthful 45.
Cats in Islam.
Noscapine production in poppies is complex, but not so complex that boffins can’t figure it out.
Want help in getting taxonomic names right? What you need is the Taxonomic Name Resolution Service. Does that mean we don’t need this any more?

GIBF taxonomy is broken. We’re doomed. No, but it can be fixed. Phew.
Maybe start with a unique identifier for taxonomists? Followed by one for genebank accessions… Yeah. Right.
Domesticating animals won’t save them. And more on the commodification of wildlife. Is that even a word?
Geomedicine is here. Can geonutrition be far behind? We’re going to need better maps, though.
Saving heirlooms, one bright student at a time.
“Botanists Make Much Use of Time.” If you can get beyond the title, there’s another, quite different, but again quite nice, seed saving story on page 3.
“Why aren’t these plants the poster children [for plant conservation]?” You tell me.
Or, instead of doing something about it, as above, we could have a week of Collective Rice Action 2012.
You can park your sourdough here, sir.
How Thoreau is helping boffins monitor phenology. But there’s another way too.
“She drinks coffee. She farms coffee. She studies coffee.” Wild coffee.
Massive meet on the Rambo Root. Very soon, in Uganda.
Ketchup is from China? Riiiight. Whatever, who cares, we have the genome!
And in other news, there are truffles in Qatar. But maybe not for long.
The weirdness of cashews.
The normalcy of home gardens as a source of food security — in Indonesia.
Ok, then, the weirdness of oolong tea.
Aha, gotcha, the normalcy of office bacterial floras! Eh? No, wait…