Nibbles

Nibbles: PNG & CC, Pasture, Nagoya, Sesame, CIMMYT, Oryza, Tradition

A view from Papua New Guinea on a project to prepare PNG agriculture for climate change.
How to grow a properly biodiverse pasture. Hint: money isn’t enough.
Another Nagoya round-up. And another.
Sesamum monographed.
Award for CIMMYT genebank.
African rice domestication deconstructed.
Traditional practices bad for Nigerian children, good for Chinese fish.

ILRI slideshow on adapting South Asian livestock systems to climate change. And some background.
Latest on Nepal’s new genebank.
Salicornia 101.
GENERA: a database of published, peer-reviewed scientific papers that are related to the risks and safety of genetic engineering in agriculture. Courtesy of Biofortified.

Sierra Leone gets back to (rural) work.
Rachel Laudan not keen on UNESCO protecting culinary traditions.
Value chains are hard.
Dual-purpose sorghum in the CGIAR spotlight.
Andy does cassava. Looks like he may need to buy a house in Bellagio.
Latest Animal Genetic Resources is out. In other news, there’s an international journal called Animal Genetic Resources.

Bioversity DG “jubilant” at Nagoya Protocol.
A video plug for the biofortification conference.
Native potatoes on foodie agenda.
A date palm festival. In the US.
The success of species introductions.
Italian acorn cakes deconstructed. I’m told the people able to recognize these sweet acorns are few and old.
Calling times on biological names. Whoa!
Saving heirloom mielies.
What the heck is happening with phosphorus anyway?
Panamanian farmers don’t like to grow (some) native trees on their farms because of slow growth rates.
Eating medieval weeds.
Latest from Pavlovsk. I have no idea what’s going on anymore.
Lactase persistence due to cold.
Genetics says plague came from China.