- Native American eating “best museum cafeteria in town”. “Makes up for the museum,” sniffs Jeremy
- Catalog of advanced clones and improved varieties going like hot potatoes.
- The Economic Impact of Bioversity is apparently “a seriously problem-rich, solution-craving topic”. Innovation Investment Journal says so.
- Pharaonic palm not immortal. Medemia argun “critically endangered”.
- Goat lineage diversity delineated. Paywalled.
- Chickpea diversity includes variability in resistance to salinity. Paywalled.
Nibbles: Iron, Nepal, Livestock, Rats, Kew, Wheat, Carbon
- Iron-rich potatoes: from genebanks to “improving health in poor communities”.
- Agricultural intensification in Nepal; positive impacts vs “potential negative implications”. Via.
- Stray livestock wreak havoc in Sri Lanka. h/t CIAT.
- New book on “ecologically based rodent management”. Rodents say: “Rats!”
- Kew Director looks forward to 2011.
- More on North America’s wonderful wheat breeders and their ability to weather climate change.
- Plantations more profitable than pasture in Queensland — in a model that includes $4.4/tonne of carbon sequestration.
Nibbles: Cholera, School Gardens, Diets, Genetic pollution
- Vegetable seeds to combat cholera. Really.
- “[O]ne person’s tomato is another one’s maintenance nightmare.” School garden backlash shock.
- On the other hand “we have to imbue our children with the love of — and consumption of -— … fresh vegetables and fruits”. Lose some, win some.
- Malicious pollen? Anastasia turns the tables on the contamination nuts.
Nibbles: Women, Old Crops, New Crops, Forests, Pavlovsk
- Women and livestock.
- Women are not the solution.
- Hang on, sorry. Women are the solution.
- Traditional crops help improve agricultural sustainability, says scientist.
- Biofortification “is exactly what we need to … improve global health,” says Deputy Coordinator for Development at Feed the Future.
- Grist’s “good news for trees” roundup of 2010.
- Russie : menace sur le jardin d’Eden – that’s Pavlovsk for non francophones — a TV report.
Nibbles: Oranges, Pigs, Roundup, Agave
- The Human Flower Project uses Christmas oranges to teach about diversity and traditional knowledge.
- The New York Times discovered the hairy Hungarian Mangalitsa pig … so it must be real.
- SciDev.net’s highs and lows of 2010.
- “The genetic resources from landraces ignored by the tequila industry may be valuable for both ethanol production and conservation.” Uh-huh. h/t Jacob.