Nibbles

Nibbles: AVRDC, PPB, Local foods, Emergency food, AnGR meeting, Tilapia, Agave, Asses, New cassava, Diversity for services, Climate change and phenology

40 years of AVRDC celebrated. Lots more stuff on vegetables below, so stick around if that grabbed you.
Breeding with farmers, an ICARDA manual. Are there any examples with vegetables, I wonder?
Let’s Go Local! See the ABC piece before it disappears from the front page. But it’s not just karat bananas that you need, of course.
Going local in Philippines too. And India for that matter. And, ahem, Arkansas. Oh and Amazonia.
Another use for baobab. I feel a factsheet coming on.
And here are some utterly different fruits.
Talking AnGR in Latin America.
GIFT tilapia in India! Look it up, we did a Brainfood on it.
A Belgian milestone. Put out more flags.
Is it Cinco de Mayo yet? Well, break out the tequila anyway.
Is it World Donkey Day yet?
“Farmer associations hope TME 419 will soon spread across the whole country.” That would be a fancy new cassava in DRC. Anybody worried about that at all?
Plant diversity key to zzzzzzzzzz…
Well this will wake you up.

“…the world’s first environmental health index to be based on long term historical data” not actually as interesting as it sounds.
Data porn. Aggregated. There oughta be a law… Speaking of infoporn, though, check out the third one here.
AlertNet site on Solutions for a Hungry World pretty but broken. Media alerted, so by the time you read this they may have fixed it and you won’t get Haiti no matter what you click.
Warwick meeting to look at vegetables and food security. You going? Will you tell us about it?
Farmer field schools in El Salvador. Diversification seems to be on the curriculum. But diversity?
And are they using — or being taught — ICTs?
ILRI reprises a high-impact article. And why not. Nice idea, actually. I may steal it.
Devil’s claw: weed or NUS? Both!
Cassava not such a Rambo after all? Heading for a quagmire in SE Asia.
Greek seed savers met a couple of weeks back. Where you there? Would you like to tell us about it?
Speaking of seeds, would you like to help save the D. Landreth Seed Company?
More social dolphins more likely to help humans fish. I wonder if the same for, say, ancient wolves.

The CGIAR Consortium finds a CGIAR success story. While the Guardian does another.
Talk on honeybee diversity at UC Davis. Hopefully Robert will be available for comment. Meanwhile, across the Pond…
Seeing the food security for the trees.
Yeah I’m just not sure it’s such a good idea to name a new avocado variety Uzi, no matter how good it may be.
Deconstructing the global land rush. And here’s the data… Jatropha everywhere.
The deep roots of globalization. Move over jatropha.
More on that paper on how to recognize a relatively drought-tolerant species.
All tangled up in natural fibres.
How to read organic agriculture debates. Just in case you actually want to read them.
An Indian prepares for the Convention on Biological Diversity‘s meeting in Hyderabad in October. Not too early, is it?
Bean breeders! Funding alert! You have nothing to lose but your diversity.
India posts world record rice harvest — using System of Rice Intensification. Take that, doubters.