- Deeper roots could store CO2 and resist drought? Well, yeah, I suppose. Need to find the original paper.
- Commodity price volatility 101; off topic, but important.
- Good return on investment for agricultural aid in Togo. Some vegetables included.
- Stuart Pimm answers “why should I care” questions about biodiversity. No time to listen, so no idea whether he does any agrobiodiversity.
Nibbles: Pastoralism, Carnival, Mustangs, Cassava, Tea, Biofuels
- Pastoral mobiity “a trump card to be strengthened”.
- Latest Berry go Round is up, although I can’t actually read it myself.
- Wild horses in the US southwest.
- Cassava notes: GMO cassava lower in cyanogens, higher in protein.
- Climate change threatens Ugandan tea. Luigi’s MIL secretly pleased.
- How to guarantee a food-insecure future in Kenya.
Nibbles: Hogwash, Onion, Herbal medicine, Coconuts
- Harry Potter upsets tree expert shock. Here’s the video.
- Botany, salad and Allium cepa.. (NB Satire.)
- Out of the Archives – Researching Herbal Medicine Then and Now. Seminar, 26 October 2011; details here.
- Coconuts: not indigenous, but quite at home nevertheless. Scientific American investigates coconut evolution and dispersal.
Nibbles: Agroforestry, Maize breeding, Sorghum diversity, Wine sustainability, Soybean diversity, Permaculture
- Mexico Promotes Agroforestry For Arid Areas.
- How to pollinate sweetcorn, because you can never have too many how-tos.
- Diverse sorghums for diverse uses in Burundi.
- Watch out for carbon-footprint labels on your wine.
- Looking for dynamite soybean diversity? Go to Sweden. Really.
- The New York Times discovers permaculture. h/t Mauri.
Nibbles: Heat, Watermelons, Rye, Apples, Solanum melongena, Pinus edulis, Food systems, Indian rice, Glycene
- Heat takes growing toll on Kansas farm crops. Heat, not drought. Just sayin’.
- Amateur Hour I: watermelons.
- Amateur Hour II: perennial rye.
- Amateur Hour III: red-fleshed apples.
- Bronjenas. An eggplant by any other name is still an aubergine (Solanum melongena).
- Not your average pinoli.
- We need to fix the food system. But how? Answers on a postcard, please.
- Saving traditional rice landraces in India. Of which there are maybe 3,000 in the NE alone. No mention of genebanks.
- Superstar Swedish soybeans