- Blogposts from Durban I: Evergreen Agriculture for all
- Blogposts from Durban II: Meteorologists, traditional and modern.
- And the quote of the day, yesterday: “There is no word in English for the Irish word that translates, roughly, as ubuntu.”
Nibbles: Statuary, Confusion, Unheard from, Kava
- A statue of Norman Borlaug. Artists invited to submit ideas.
- A diversity of Junior Ministers of Agriculture in Italy.
- Feeling left out of the EU’s survey on the state of its biodiversity work? Join Patrick and make your voice heard. But not necessarily listened too.
- Fiji cracks down on yaqona, which we know as kava. Say it isn’t so!
Nibbles: Plant conservation, AnGR training materials, ICTs in agriculture, CWR and GIS
- Don’t understand the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation? Fear not, help is at hand.
- Don’t understand livestock genetics? Fear not, help is at hand.
- Don’t understand how ICTs could assist agricultural development? Fear not, help is at hand.
- Don’t understand how climate change affects vegetable genetic resources. Fear not, do this postdoc at Wageningen and you will.
Nibbles: Sweet potato value adding, Coffee and tree diversity, Spice and girls
- Sweet potato yoghurt? Yeah, ok, why not.
- Decreasing coffee production in Kenya can reduce tree abundance and richness on farm, but increasing production will lead to more trees but not necessarily more diversity. No, I don’t get it either, but have a look at the data yourself and try to figure it out. There’s plenty of it in this presentation.
- Love of hot peppers as benign masochism. Myself I think it’s a sexual selection cue.
Nibbles: Pre-Columbian ecology, Huitlacoche, Nutrition, COP17, Walnuts, Custodians, Price Volatility, Kenyan farmers, Education, Peach pests, Unhappy Talk
- Special Journal issue on Environmental changes and pre-Columbian human influence in the Amazon region.
- Porn on the cob. A smut story with a headline so good, I’m sure to steal it.
- A practical field manual cum guide to Improving nutrition with agricultural biodiversity.
- Ag researchers “speak with a single voice” to “call on climate negotiators to endorse a work programme for agriculture”. We shall see.
- And will it come in time to Save the Walnut?
- New book on “Custodians of Biodiversity“.
- Brussels Briefing on Food Price Volatility. Today! Soon!
- China hears how Kenyan farmers can benefit from traditional vegetables.
- “Are plants like us?” It depends …
- A minor increase in biodiversity protects peaches from nematode pests.
- Climate change in the Pacific: The problem, according to the Aussies. The solution, according to the ADB.