Nibbles

Nibbles: Food prices, Wheat breeding, Potato Park, Mead, Peanut processing

Is the World Producing Enough Food? The NY Times has the answer(s).
Aussies trying to get to grips with salinity through breeding. Very cool, but maybe they should just stop growing wheat and think of some other crop?
Potato Park potatoes to be parked in the Bóveda Global de Semillas de Svalbard.
You know what those naughty Vikings used to say: “Let there be mirth, mead and fornication!”
Adding value to peanuts in Bolivia. KIT video.

The Leveraging Agriculture: what engaged participants? And the IFPRI contribution. What’s the intersection of those two sets, I wonder.
Productive means susceptible. Except when it doesn’t. I’m in that kind of mood today.
The deep origins of Vitis.

Looks interesting: Assessing the impact of rural policy on biodiversity: High Nature Value Farming in Italy. Next Thursday.
Gates Foundation’s Sylvia Mathews Burwell says Fortify Lives with agriculture and Nutrition. In full.
Ugandans! Grow sorghum, get a scholarship for your child. Win-win. Cheers, Nile Breweries.
Australian farmer tells all about Svalbard.
ILRI speaks about climate change, livestock and plagues — The Economist listens. Respect!