- Interview with the Secretary-General of Gum Arabic Council. In other news, there’s a Gum Arabic Council.
- Gosh, is that really all there is today?
- Ah yes, here’s something more, sago cultivation in Indonesia.
- And the ongoing search for the world’s hottest chilli pepper.
- Neil’s got apples in Himal Pradesh, an enriching response to climate change.
Nibbles: Tobacco! Maize! Andean Roots & Tubers!
- Tobacco is enjoying a resurrection as a crop.
- Michigan State University to research adapting maize to climate change in Zambia and Kenya.
- Researchers & Restaurateurs Work to Save Peru’s Food Diversity; article and podcast. The really good news? Oca are not potatoes!
Nibbles: China, Anti-malarials, Mongolia
- China’s capitalists gobble up agriculture. If you can’t join ’em, beat ’em.
- Making better seed of Artemisia available. And conserving its diversity?
- Mongolian pastoralists embrace collective action.
Nibbles: Agave™, Bananas, Intellectual property
- You can’t patent a plant’s formal name, can you?
- Brazilian banana meeting roundup.
- Building Institutions for Sustainable Scientific, Cultural and genetic Resources Commons. a conference. h/t CAPRi.
Nibbles: Pest management, Pest management, Small-scale farmers, Food fair, USDA stats
- Community management of pests is less efficient (in Spanish). Something to do with farmers not sharing information quickly enough.
- Birds help to control vineyard pests.
- Small-scale farmers can feed the world, as any fule kno.
- Smithsonian celebrates urban ag. Meh.
- Organic food festival Dec 16th, Ahmedabad, India. “The food items should necessarily involve use of indigenous varieties”.
- USDA stops counting sheep. And goats, catfish and hops, among others.