Nibbles

Nibbles: Livestock films, Sea cucumbers, Plant collecting, Nutritional composition, Intensification, Mongolian pastoralists, Low resource tolerance

More livestock films than you can shake a stick at.
The Consortium all at sea.
Road trip! Herbarium specimen collecting in Nepal.
Call for nutritional composition data on the staples of Papua New Guinea.
Wanna intensify agriculture in the highlands of East Africa? Here comes the PowerPoint.
The Tragedy of the Commons averted in Mongolia through collective action.
A new approach to functional traits? I don’t see the difference myself, but I’ll take their word for it.

Hey Luigi, wherever you are, here’s news of another map for you to pour (cold water) over.
New Scientist on nettles that grow at the back of caves and that may be relict populations. Odd.
Botanic Gardens Conservation International wants children to design “local” floral garlands for olympic athletes. Taking localism too far? What’s wrong with laurel?
Journalist explores biodiversity vs food security arguments in Ecuador. It’s still complicated.
Bifurcated Carrots is kind enough to link to the index for Replies to the Online Consultation on the review of the EU legislation on the marketing of seed and plant propagating material. Now, who’s going to do the analysis?
FAO’s 1964 view of how agriculture would need to change in the following 20 years. Fifty years on, where are we?
Not so sweet: the Samurais of Sugar.
In Chicago next month? Go and see a play based on a book based on the scientists at the Vavilov Institute during the siege of Leningrad. Then write us a review?

“These awful tomatoes are genetically modified organisms, (GMOs)”. Oh, really? I do wish I didn’t have to naysay quite so often.
Cyclanthera pedata, in all its Himalayan glory. I’ve grown achocha, and it is a wonderful plant to have around. There, I yea-sayed!
A new spin on “biofortified”. Beans biofortied “against excess heat, drought, water and pests”.