Nibbles

Nibbles: Brazil, Canada, Book, Lebanese food, Threatened dispersal, Jeanne Baret, Avinoam Danin

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.

Diverse alternatives to Piper nigrum. Tasty.
How local indigenous people farmed in the land that became Massachusetts.
How local indigenous people farm in Orissa: “rice breeds fish breeds rice“. More on that Koraput GIAHS award.
Should Rwandan farmers grow what they want to, or what the government tells them to?
Have you heard the news? Transistor radios may be more important to poor farmers than mobile telephones.