Nibbles

Nibbles: Beetle diets, Seed hunters, NUS, Food security, Indian malnutrition, Craft Irish beer, Nordic livestock, Prosecco DOC, Artemisia, CGIAR

Predators hunt for a balanced diet. So it’s not just people?
Seeds of High Asia. Saudi Aramco World gives respect to the seed hunters.
Obscure crops and an obscure book. Dorian Fuller gives respect to the neglected.
“For the time being, I genuinely believe we must maintain yield growth, but we need to ensure that we preserve the natural capital for the future.” UK Food Security Czar speaks.
Indian PM mea culpa on malnutrition. Will he listen to the above? Would it help?
Beer in Ireland. Not Guinness. I may be gone some time.
Nordics discuss AnGR and climate change. Successfully, natch.
Prosecco runs to the IPR ramparts.
Video on growing Artemisia to fight poverty.
Help the CGIAR with its tagline. Beyond irony.

In Mato Grosso, deforestation rates fell as agricultural production rose. I know.
“Imagine Ontario without … a maple leaf.” It’s easy, if you try.
Got a case study in Community Based Adaptation (to climate change)? A book author wants to hear from you. h/t CAPRi.
And here are some case studies on local foods and nutrition, from Lebanon.
BBC reports on an Indian study: Plants at risk from seed dispersal threats. No mention of seed systems, formal or informal, that support agricultural plants.
First woman to circumnavigate the world was a botanizing French herbalist.
Veteran Israeli botanist interviewed, mentions crops wild relatives without actually calling them that.

Meet my two best friends, Jack and Daniel.
How to design sustainable intensification projects.
All about the Aussie PGR “system.” What’s that you say? They need another genebank?
I just know you want to go to the Global Conference on Women in Agriculture.
If that doesn’t grab you, perhaps Denver Botanic Garden’s series of booktalks will. Tea & sushi, anyone?
New FAO DG pushes all right buttons except for agrobiodiversity. Which is left for others at FAO to push.

The Russian sunflowers are coming! The Russian sunflowers are coming!
Holy cow! Can’t do better than The Hindu’s headline. And more.
CIMMYT says groundnut varieties good for income. ICRISAT unavailable for comment.
But are they climate-proof?
Because it could be worse than we thought for many species. And more. And what it means for in situ.
The latest on what’s killing bees.
The fig, in all its recondite glory.
Apples of France, Part Deux.
All you ever wanted to know about growing your own luffa.
IRRI DDG tries his hand at growing a rice crop. And blogs about it to boot. A nice idea, which should be widely emulated in the CG.

Le droit de planter et cultiver librement bientôt interdit? Not new, still important. h/t @plgepts
Or, if you prefer, “French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds“.
Philippine Coconut Authority promotes value of coconut variety Tutupaen tall for its thick shell.
Payments for Agrobiodiversity Conservation. New Agriculturalist does Bioversity scientist Adam Drucker proud.