Nibbles

Nibbles: Hunger foods, Pollinators, Sacred Seeds, Neglected species, Grasses, Yields, Hawaiian History

Mining Mungo Park for info about famine foods. Bamboo seeds and, perhaps, baobab pods.
The big prerequisite for EU funding is a good acronym. STEP — status and trends of European pollinators — gets the go ahead.
Sacred Seeds project at Missouri Botanical Garden announces new partners in India.
New Bioversity project to extend importance of work on neglected species in India, Nepal and Bolivia.
How to manage diverse grasses.
More on climate change and maize yields. “[I]f anything heat tolerance is declining.”
Ancient agriculture in Hawaii.

Bioversity promotes a fund-raiser for forgotten fruit trees.
Seed crisis in Bangladesh. It’s complicated. Really complicated.
Belatedly, mirthful report on mead.
“…during the advent of agriculture … early farmers may have at first come together in communal activities, prior to congregating in villages.”
USDA’s fruit genebank at Corvallis in the news.

Sudanese beer-drinkers in trouble. Let my people go!
The future of tea in Kenya. Mother-in-law alerted.
Meanwhile, Kenyan pastoralists go back to the future.
Slideshow: “Combating hidden hunger through bio-fortification.” Beanz meanz ironz.
May is Mediterranean Diet Month. It is? I mean, who knew?

CIMMYT disseminates wheat varieties in Nepal. Not many people hurt.
Coffee wilt disease resistant coffee varieties not being disseminated in Uganda. Many people hurt.
Father of Hybrid Rice asked not to disseminate, er, hybrid rice. Oh I give up.
New Australian peanut variety ready for dissemination in double-quick time.
Alternatives to Napier grass all set for dissemination in Kenya.