- 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!
Nibbles: Conference, Wild Relatives, Climate Change, Rotation
- IFPRI’s press release for the big Health, Ag, Nutrition shindig.
- Crop Wild Relatives: Plant Conservation for Food Security in England published.
- A Missing Link in Climate Change Policy. Can you guess what it is yet?
- Crop rotation is good for you. And in other news …
Nibbles: Colombian coffee, Nutrition
- Who’d be a coffee farmer in Colombia?
- Farming First eats nutrition.
Nibbles: Egyptian mysteries, Svalbard, Pineapple fabric, Chinese alcohol, Seed Saving
- “Readers, florists, Egyptians, can you help?” Maybe some of them are crops.
- Seeds move from South to North for safety. Australia backs up to Norway.
- Tired of your hair shirt? Try pineapple fibre.
- The history of alcohol in China; Happy Rabbit.
- How to save heirloom seeds (for people near Central Arkansas).
- Food and War (not what you think; a book review)
Nibbles: Taro, Organics, Chickens, Cuba, Fishfood,
- How to build a taro garden; the straight dope from Queen Emma (1836-1885).
- Organic agriculture in Kibera, Kenya; the straight dope from the BBC (slideshow)
- Chinese chicken merchants undercut locals; welcome to the market, Zambia.
- UN to preserve Cuban agrobiodiversity? Who knows, no straight dope to be had.
- Research proves new soybean meal sources are good fish meal alternatives. So that’s alright then.