- Call for papers on Plant Ethics. Not just PICs and ABS.
- Today’s genebanks … Prairie Fruit in Saskatchewan, Canada, and
- something or other in Montenegro.
- Farmer savants explains why I couldn’t be bothered to link to the original loopy prognostifications.
Nibbles: FAO newsletters, Spanish fowl, Jamaican cattle, Food composition database
- New Plant Breeding News and Non-Wood Forest Products.
- Nice pix of Spanish chicks.
- Jamaican cattle in trouble, man.
- FAO/INFOODS Food Composition Database on Biodiversity will be published on 15 December 2010. Put out more flags.
Nibbles: EU <3 ABD, Food companies, Maize, Coffee
- EU counts the ways it loves agricultural biodiversity. 17!
- OFEC anyone? Tom (& the FT) thinks food is the new energy.
- The Scientist Gardener explains maize hybrids and hybrid vigour. My question: what if the effort had gone into mass selection instead?
- A 15 minute video on the Ethiopian Coffee story; thanks CAS-IP.
Nibbles: Caucasus, Disease, Pork, Nepali genebank, Rare Breeds, Climate
- All hail the garden of agrobiodiversity that is the Southern Caucasus, says FAO.
- Paywalled Nature paper links biodiversity with disease spread — even in agriculture. Get it here.
- Roman pig yields the secrets of tasty pork — in about another 2000 years.
- Nepal’s genebank goes from strength to strength.
- Rare Breeds Survival Trust gets lifetime achievement award. Good to gnaw.
- “It’s high time the ancestral knowledge possessed by small farmers and indigenous people was appreciated at its true value.” Climate change edition.
Nibbles: Cancun, Wine, Zambia, Bees
- Just in time. Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 now has RSS.
- “It wasn’t debilitated in any way.” World’s oldest beer and wine drunk.
- Zambian farmers buy seeds, fertilisers and herbicides by mobile phone. What could possibly go wrong?
- Red bees! A little too much biodiversity to blame? h/t Tasting Cultures