- Oh no. Hessian flies are becoming resistant to hessian fly-resistant wheats.
- Coconuts! An Indian perspective.
Nibbles: Meet!
- Big important meeting on Agrobiodiversity and the development importance of local varieties and indigenous species is over.
- Big important meeting on new directions for smallholder agriculture starts tomorrow.
Nibbles: Sustainable diets, Prices, Seed Industry,
- Been waiting a while for this. Conservation of plant biodiversity for sustainable diets. PowerPoint as PDF.
- And this. Agricultural Biodiversity Is Essential for a Sustainable Improvement in Food and Nutrition Security. Open-access paper.
- Follow along with the price spikes in food. On-line data.
- South African seed company bought by Pioneer. Speculative.
Nibbles: Dog, Beer, Human Planet, Entomophagy, Food Atlas, Pepper, Barley
- When dog was on the menu.
- Going far, and far back, for beer. And indeed yeast. Always worth the effort.
- BBC launches Human Planet, focusing on “man’s remarkable relationship with the natural world.” Which apparently doesn’t include agriculture.
- Mexicans eat many moth species, and not just the larvae.
- Amazing interactive food atlas for the US. wish I had a use for it, but someone surely does.
- Breeding a “better” Jalapeño pepper — to hold more cheese, natcho.
- Food as politics; the tsampa-eaters of the TAR. h/t GOOD.
Nibbles: IK, Fragaria, Citrus, Millet breeding, Vitis, Agricultural biodiversity, Satellite imagery, Subsistence
- Indigenous knowledge of agrobiodiversity makes the news in Indonesia.
- Reconstructing the strawberry.
- And reconstructing the history of cultivated citrus fruits.
- ICRISAT millet breeders get an a new toy.
- Plenty of diversity in the cultivated grape still. And it’s going to need it.
- Biodiversity (and agrobiodiversity?) needed for farm productivity. Well I never! But more mixed results available too. What’s a poor boy to think?
- SPOT 5 imagery can be used to identify crops. In Texas. But in Tanzania?
- Agricultural biodiversity and subsistence traditions, Part 2. In the Ozarks. But in Omo? (And here’s Part 1.)