Nibbles

Nibbles: African Funding

Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda will invest $1.2 million each over the next three years to revive the Institute of Agricultural and Zootechnical Research. Local solutions to global problems.

What words should we use? “[B]est management practices” or “more casual words like local, family-owned and farmer”.
Words like “farming”. How to make a living “farming” without leaving your armchair. Via.
Hungry work, that. If only I had a slice of acorn-finished pork to finish.
Someone else who would like that: where in the world is Luigi Guarino? Wherever “it is imperative that genetic diversity is maintained for posterity.”

A drug company is almost ready to go with a pain reliever from the Peruvian rainforest, based on Acmella oleracea, “also known as toothache plant”. Clues, wherever you look.
Why biodiverse beehives do better. It’s partly down to biodiverse bacteria.
Producing blood oranges anywhere. I’ll enjoy my Sicilian ones more, now I know why only some are bloody.
A hymn to the diversity of fermented milk products.
Interview with Melaku Worede of Ethiopia; “we are still losing diversity at an alarming rate”.
Rajiv Shah, administrator of USAID, explains what it is all about.

See Gardens of the Pharaohs at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities from 27 April to 2 September.
Iron-deficiency anaemia? Engineer a banana!
Eldis shares details of a workshop on access and benefit sharing under the International Seed Treaty.
A hugely successful Seedy Sunday in Amsterdam. Call the Seed Police!
The BBC remembers Forgotten Foods. No, not NUS.

Today’s maybe we’ll get some coverage if we link it to hunger and famine press release. Petunia gene.
Today’s there’s a database for that announcement. FAO’s Horticulture Cultivars Performance Database.
Today’s impact of climate change on X report. Forest resources in the Caribbean.
Today’s debunking a crappy piece of nutrition research killjoys. Experts respond to nutrition claims.
The Archaeobotanist has been going great guns; new book on domestication and millet domestication. We’ll pass on the museum post till we can firm it up.
IFPRI says let two flowers bloom. Here’s the super-groovy new policy kid on the block for non-policy wonks.
I’ll see your evil speculators and raise you a rising secular trend in food prices. (See what I did there?)
With a heavy clunk, The Economist gave Svalbard’s Doomsday Seed Vault a fine 4th birthday present.