- Illinois grape breeders turn to wild relatives. Wait, what?
- “Floods wash away Pakistan’s crop research efforts.” And everything else.
- Passion fruits run riot in Lessos, Kenya.
- CIAT experts aim to ease Colombia’s coconut disease squeeze.
- Botanists agonize over assisted migration.
- Gates Foundation puts stop to debate on smallholder productivity.
Nibbles: Pigeonpea, Livestock breeding, Ecotourism, Data
- Pigeonpea gets the genomics treatment.
- Animal genetic resources for the poor: “…one of the highest priority interventions for the smallholder systems is the development of innovative approaches for the strategic use of appropriate genotypes from the available range of global breed resources.”
- How good is ecotourism?
- Gapminder does per capita food supply.
Nibbles: Breadfruit, Potatoes, Indian breeds, Satoyama, Landscape genetics
- Breadfruit diversity makes for year round nutrition.
- Bacteria help potatoes fight off bacteria.
- India calls for efforts to conserve indigenous livestock. What’s stopping them?
- All you ever wanted to know about Satoyama — including Satoumi!
- Speaking of which … landscape genetics. No, I don’t know either.
Nibbles: Bees, Food crises, Book, Drought, Video, Pavlovsk, Community genebank
- More on the one-two fungus-virus bee-killer combo.
- “In the end, all the brave talk about food self-sufficiency in Asia is just nonsense; ain’t never gonna happen.” Very strategic analysis.
- The Resilient Gardener, by Carol Deppe. Can’t wait to get hold of this, from one of the best ever.
- “African governments urged to increase uptake of drought tolerant maize.” Because that’s easier than drought-tolerant agriculture?
- The need for Agricultural Bioversity/Documentary Video. I guess I’ll have to find time to watch this. Unless you do first and tell us what you think.
- Belated: someone else finds coverage of Pavlovsk puzzling.
- Kenyan community sets up its own genebank to protect itself from evil hybrids and GMOs.
Nibbles: Nepal genebank, Banana mapping, PNG diet, Climate change
- More on the inauguration of the new Nepal genebank.
- Someone else thinks crop production maps might be useful in prioritizing germplasm collecting. No, wait…
- Diverse diets are good for you. Well I never. No, it’s always good to have the data.
- Andy Jarvis feeds reptiles climate change facts shock.