- Functional diversity: a new tool to assess the nutritional diversity of African cropping systems.
- Crops for the Future welcomes the official launch of the Crops for the Future Research Center. At last.
- At home with the Heritage Wheat Conservancy.
Nibbles: Orissa genebank, Cornish bees, Andean Roots & Tubers, Ag at WCSJ
- Not content with its seed mothers, or a national or international genebank, the state of Orissa in India wants its own genebank.
- Bee biodiversity.
- Andean root and tuber crops. And none of them a potato!
- Some ag-related reporting from the World Conference of Science Journalists. It isn’t pretty.
Nibbles: Seed mothers, Bees, Strawberry, Chilli collection, Talk on agrobiodiversity
- Need seed? Ask a bihana-maa, at least if you are in Orissa.
- Decline in UK honeybees reveals that crops not so dependent on them after all. Huh?
- A new strawberry for aesthetically-minded home gardeners.
- Wild Chilli group of Europe to visit Experimental Garden and Genebank of the Radboud University of Nijmegen. Send us a report?
- A free talk about the importance of perpetuating food plant resources for the future on Thursday, July 14. Oh, it’s on Hawaii. Send us a report?
Nibbles: Aberdeen, Sahelian agroforestry, Seed companies, Haiti seed donation, Seaweed, Taste, Books, Logging, Cheese boycott
- 100 years of agricultural research in Idaho. Includes genebank since 1988.
- A Great Green Wall to go with Africa’s Green Revolution.
- Selling seed from the back of a car. Jacob unavailable for comment.
- Latest on that Haitian seed story.
- Seaweed farming in Zanzibar. Nice gig if you can get it.
- Taste is a complicated thing.
- Gorge on brainfood. Lots of botanical science books made available by Smithsonian.
- DNA fingerprinting to identify illegal logs?
- Cottage cheese isn’t “just” cottage cheese, say Israeli activists.
Nibbles: Parliamentary buzz, Weeds, Malthus, Suceava genebank, Fukushima farmers, Mangifera, Fermentation, Macaws, Biodiversity banks, Asses
- EU parliament, and others, urged “to improve conditions for pollinators in Europe”.
- Weeds. A book from Richard Mabey, now published and reviewed in the US.
- Ismail Serageldin will present the 2nd annual Malthus Lecture on 14 July at IFPRI. I’ll be staying late to follow the webcast.
- The Romanian genebank at Suceava seems to have a kind of progress report.
- They’re making a film about the organic farmers of Fukushima.
- Mango diversity picture goodness.
- Turns out making ginger beer doesn’t involve ginger. What it does involve is a weird agrobiodiversity symbiosis, but you had me at beer.
- Ancient Chacoans bred macaws. And why not.
- Biodiversity offsets are a huge market. What I want to know is if any of than money could go to genebanks.
- Ethiopian donkey power.