Nibbles

Nibbles: Beetles, Assisted migration, Potato breeding, Chaffey, Malnutrition

Beetles good for weeds. No news on effect of Rolling Stones on pests.
When to move species. Acacias, for example?
A gene to prevent inbreeding depression in potato. I’m kinda down myself today.
As you were, Plant Cuttings has made me feel a whole lot better.
Documenting Peru’s success in fighting malnutrition. Did fortification play a role? Hard to say from this, which focuses on policy, and in particular conditional cash transfers.

More on #IBC18 from AoB. Web 2.0 as it should be.
EurActive.com with massive dossier on sustainable intensification in Europe. Not much diversification there, though, except for intercropping.
Boffins look for wild macadamias with thinner shells for wimpy consumers. Well, not just that.
The ancient Maya mixed up their turtles.
Grass skirts latest GMO fear.

Livestock diversity in the hands of FAO. No comment.
Let them eat fruit!
AoB breaks down International Botanical Congress 18 for us.
Species-poor tree plantations could be good for conservation of rare tree found in remnant forest patches in Chile because they encourage pollinators to move on. Agriculture, on other hand, is bad because it lures generalist pollinators into staying. Nature, don’t you just love it?
Climate-proofing the Solomon Islands to include “the isolation of crop species tolerant of high salinity, high rainfall, and drought.” Strewth.
Marine diversity. (Only kidding.)
Good advice on home seed saving from Suzanne Ashworth. She wrote the (a?) book.

Three days down, one to go in Rome.
Indian hybrid chickens set to take over Uganda.
Latest from CGIAR restructuring: the 6 research programmes agreed thus far. So how you like our latest toy?
60-tonne God of Rain unearthed; drought continues.
Mozambique Raises Production of Staple Foods by 22% a Year. Amazing. How? And for how long?

Cattle do the wild thing in Vietnam.
West African Ruminant Livestock: The Movie.
An interesting new botanical blog on me.
Who says working in a genebank is unrewarding? Technician is honoured with award, and that is not an oca she’s fondling?
Back40 dissects the trouble with agriculture; it isn’t dignified. Well, it is, but …
Forests are really, really good for economies.
Andy Jarvis pulls it all together: looking forward to a climatically less diverse world.