- Leafy vegetable cures cancer! Well, nearly.
- Blue tomato seeds available. Well, nearly.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about chickpeas. Well, nearly.
- COP10 all over bar the shouting. Well, nearly.
- Phosphate supplies assured. Well, nearly.
Nibbles: Ethics, Seeds, Coconut, Nordic genebank
- Ethical Considerations in Agro-biodiversity Research, Collecting, and Use. In case you were thinking of doing some.
- Seed control ceded?
- “Scores of women from the rural households brought in finest homemade recipes on coconut.” My kind of conference.
- “Unique plant bank threatened,” says Google Translate of Nordic genebanks. Thanks Britta.
Nibbles: COP 10, Sunflowers, Salad silliness
- COP10 sees “Fast progress in ‘Agricultural Biodiversity'” it says here.
- Sunflower weeds in Europe derived from crop-wild relative matings.
- Heritage meat and wheat to eat. In Tucson, Arizona.
- Top 10 Men With Salad Names.
Nibbles: Apple Diversity, Sorghum, Ugandan organics, Cows, CABI, Giant pumpkin, Nutrigenomics, SOTW2
- Apple diversity on display at Terra Madre.
- A drought-resistant sorghum for Karamoja. Read the script of a radio programme.
- CIAT advises Ugandan farmers: produce what you can sell, don’t sell what you can produce. Hmmmn.
- Local cow breeds and Protected Designation of Origin cheeses. There’s a conclusion here struggling to emerge, but I can’t recognize it. Help me.
- CABI pushes for crop diversification. Get in line!
- Where giant pumpkins come from.
- Nutritionists should get to grips with human diversity.
- 2nd State of the World’s PGRFA launched by FAO to much fanfare. And usual incorrect figures on genetic erosion. Oh I give up.
Nibbles: SRI, Apples, Neem, Svalbard
- System of Rice Intensification (SRi) works in Panama. Yields up 47%, water down 86%.
- 28 great apples available in New York.
- Neem tree provenance trials; results from Nepal.
- Wired does Svalbard. Cool squared?