- One pathetic nibble today, but it is tasty: Fruit-full schools in the UK.
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.
Nibbles: Advice, Advice, Advice, IR8
- 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?
Nibbes: Opium, Crop Wild Relatives, Coconuts, Multicropping, Plant Health, Genebank portal
- 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.
Nibbles: Fast cowpea, Conference, Rice, Schools
- 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”.