Nibbles

Nibbles: Palestinian genebank, PNG seeds, Local chickens, Landscapes

New seed bank on West Bank. This one seems to be a genebank. I think.
Seeds and needs in PNG.
ILRI PowerPoint on Ethiopian chickens. But 46 slides?
Everybody’s talking about the new Landscapes for People, Food and Nature thing, so I guess we should too.

Someone else is interested in breeding oca for outside the Andes.
Not to be outdone, the World Agroforestry Centre has a blog.
Which somehow missed this story — Study finds mobile phones empower rural farmers — from World Agroforestry Centre.
The Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) has a new portal with added database goodness. Luigi dons his spelunking gear.
No thanks, no need. From now on, like this guy in Hawaii, I’m googling.

WorldFish director has a brand new blog with a fancy Latin tag. Expiscor: to fish out, to find out, and discover.
Cuba boasts home-grown Guardians of the Forests.
Promotion of Andean Crops for Rural Development in Ecuador. No idea what this is or why it popped up now, but worth sharing anyway.
Bioversity shares slides on The role of agricultural biodiversity in diets in the developing world: Improving diet diversity, quality and ecosystem sustainability.
IIED comes out for traditional methods to cope with climate change. Could we abandon this sterile dichotomy, please?

Botswana wants more home-grown R&D for horticulture.
The wonder of Aberyswyth’s high-sugar grasses. (Linking to the link farm because Aber has only a PDF.)
The Archaeobotanist points to an online database of phytoliths … because you never know when you’ll need one.

The floating gardens of Bangladesh.
So, USDA-ARS, what have you done for me lately?
The story of Ed Toth, the director of New York City’s native plant center on Staten Island. In other news, New York City has a native plant center.
Not all floods are bad.
The Consortium discovers FIGS.
Livestock genetic resources for the poor: The interview. And the PowerPoint. And the Fancy Science.