Nibbles

Nibbles: School food, India, Orchids, Biocontrol, Breastfeeding, Conch, Africa

Host a volunteer school food gardener (in the US).
M.S. Swaminathan’s menu for food security in India. Burp.
Purmina Menon’s menu for food security in India takes us beyond food. Pardon me.
Anyone for edible orchids? Anissa Helou on salep.
Wasp flies in hot pursuit of cassava mealybugs.
Melinda ♡ breastfeeding. The basis for sound nutrition.
Humped conch got bigger as a result of human activities — despite being hunted. Complex.
“Africa to become world’s breadbasket.” Makes a change from being the world’s basketcase.

Bioversity International and UNEP jointly pile on the pressure to preserve Pavlovsk …
… as do plant professors from University of Wisonsin.
Mexican maize farmers using CIMMYT genebank materials to adapt their varieties. Why not in Africa, then?
High praise for a novel on opium.
Mat Kinase takes Time to task over lacklustre organics article.
King Goodwill Zwelithini calls for One Home One Garden campaign to support food-growing and nutrition.
Feasts predate agriculture. Well, yeah.
Female farmers … a bloke writes.
Great pic on the joys of modern transhumance.
Resurrecting the Maize King. And why not?
More than anyone has a right to know about dogs in the ancient world.

Irish Times does seed saving, well.
Australia too considers genebanks. In depth.
“[T]he largest private collection of wild trees in Britain.” All grown from seed.
James and the Giant Corn gives you the straight dope on the wheat genome … so we don’t have to. Thanks.
Swiddeners can help with reforestation?
KIT tells us all about how to make spices sustainable.

How cool is it that a descendant of Charles Darwin is working on wild tomatoes on the Galapagos?
More on the Brazilian “Economic Miracle.”
Let my people plant trees on farmland!
Trouble for Syrian agriculture.
“The D. Landreth Seed Company has sold seeds to every president from George Washington to FDR.” And Obama?
Views on the durian.