- You can explore food flows among US counties. If you have lots of time.
- Studying a huge olive collection. To fight climate change.
- Improving sweet potatoes in Cambodia. Somehow.
- There’s a meeting of the Global Bean Project. Tomorrow.
- Speaking of sweet potatoes and crowd-sourced breeding (well, sort of). The Open Source Plant Breeding Forum.
- Apparently there’s nobody talking about the food extinction crisis. Nobody.
Nibbles: Banana futures, Strawberry breeding, Maize & climate change
- Latest on the banana going extinct.
- Latest on the UC Davis strawberry breeding saga.
- Latest on how to explain what’s happened to maize yields in the Midwest.
Nibbles: Aurochs, Horse domestication, Tanzanian seeds, Legume portal, MGIS, ISF, Mexico & Philippines
- A wild relative making a comeback in Europe.
- Can wild horses be far behind?
- An effort to bring back traditional foods in Tanzania.
- A new data portal on legumes.
- An old data portal gets an update.
- ISF resources on plant genetic resources.
- Mexican coconut and beverage resources are really Filipino resources.
Nibbles: Orphan crops, False banana, Kava, Old corn, Food museum, Yoghurt, Neolithic, Wheat breeding, Trees, Old clove, Monoculture history
- IFAD paean to neglected crops.
- BBC tribute to enset.
- Threnody to unsustainable kava.
- Hymn to a pot of ancient maize.
- Toast to a new museum of food in the UK.
- Jeremy’s duet with June Hersh on yoghurt.
- Scientific American epic on the European Neolithic.
- Rhapsody on saving wheat from climate change.
- Collection of important tree species from ICRAF.
- Panegyric to a clove tree.
- A eulogy for monoculture?
Nibbles: Citrus genebank, Spice data, Canada genebank, Indian double, Jessica Hernandez
- Alphabetical list of the citrus material in the US genebank.
- Alphabetical list of spices.
- The Canadian Encyclopedia tackles the national genebank.
- Old tamarind and neem trees along a road get protection in India.
- And old crop varieties get revived, also in India.
- Interview with author of a book on Indigenous conservation science.