Nibbles

Nibbles: Sweden, Nagoya, 100 questions,

Swede objects to relaxed seed laws because it promotes profit, not biodiversty. Huh?
Scidev.net optimistic about Nagoya.
Those 100 questions answered in full for global agriculture, from climate change to consumer choice. We’ll be back on this one.

Americans advised to eat diversity, by USDA and others. Wot, no fortified staples?
Webcast on Food Systems and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa. h/t The Agrobiodiversity Grapevine.
French vegetables disappearing? Je ne le crois pas.
The Scientist Gardener tackles declining yields of miracle rice, but what has he done to his colour scheme?

Sustainable alternative to opium. Still waiting for my man.
“Crop Wild Relative community calls for united global efforts“. Good to know.
Small-scale coconut growers to benefit from Kasaragod Declaration?
Australian farmer doubles number of species, doubles yield shock.
Plant health clinics take expertise where it is needed most. Now for the mobile edition …
Crowdsourcing improvements to a portal to genetic information. Now there’s an idea.

Anastasia reports on the Biofortification conference: 60-day cowpeas
Big blog post on even bigger conference on molecular tools for improving vegetatively-propagated crops: banana, plantain and cassava.
Rice technologists! You need to read this blog post by Prabhu Pingali.
UK’s Royal Horticultural Society report says school gardens are “vital”.

Resistance to coffee rust found in India, though not clear where. Now for the hard part …
Arguments for Payments for Ecosystem Services. Matt points to a conference in 2013, but where are the actual payments?
“Rather than decrying development in India and China we should be strenuously objecting to agrofuels.” So lets distinguish agrofuels from biofuels.
Today’s new genebank is in Israel. Bet there are some crop wild relatives in there.
Those Mayans were boffo agricultural engineers.
“Alcohol-free” cannabis. I don’t understand any of this.
A gene associated with flowering time has alleles associated with a rainfall gradient. h/t Jacob. Cool.