- New York Times blog and USA Today update readers on Pavlovsk.
- Biopolitical unpacks the environmentalists’ paradox, and finds it not in the least bit paradoxical.
- New standards promulgated to protect wild medicinal plants, and wild plant collectors. Phew.
- BioBlitz in East London. Wonder if they’ll find anything edible?
Nibbles: Sorghum, Heirlooms, Breadfruit, Slow Food, Biodiversity
- Enough already with the popped sorghum.
- “In short, “heirloom” fruit is life. And life is beautiful.” In long, here.
- Get to know a breadfruit. Ma’afala is special.
- Slow Food anticipates October’s food fest.
- “Agricultural production systems need to be assessed on much more than just crops and crop yields.” Can I get a ramen?
Nibbles: Heirloom Auction, Flatulence, Trade, Swaziland, Turkey genome, Sorghum
- The Art of Farming: How to fund heirloom veggies, NYC black-tie style.
- Oregano to save the planet from bovine emissions.
- Kew blogs “strange articles of trade“, all examples of agricultural biodiversity. How about them worms?
- Swazi farmer breaks with grazing tradition to adapt to climate change.
- Another day, another DNA “sequence”. The turkey.
- Overselling popped sorghum? On YouTube.
Nibbles: Nagoya, Popghum, Pavlovsk, Water, Climate change, Plumpy’Nut, Buckwheat
- The essential guide to the 10th Conference of the Parties to the convention on Biological Diversity. Unmissable.
- Popghum? What genius came up with that name? And now that it’s big in Virginia, can Africa and Latin America be far behind?
- Jeremy Bentham excoriates the Russian Federation on Pavlovsk. And gets it mostly right. Yes, that Jeremy Bentham.
- Apparently water diversity is also a good thing for food security.
- Climate change! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Huh!
- “Plumpy’Nut is not a miracle cure for global hunger or for global malnutrition.” Say it isn’t so!
- Never mind wheat, here’s the great buckwheat panic of 2010, kasha chaos.
Nibbles: Bees, Genebanks, Livestock, Deforestation
- 17 years of data confirm fears of bee decline.
- Slideshow on Egyptian Deserts Genebank; prepare to be astounded.
- Slideshow on US National Plant Germplasm System; prepare to be even more astounded.
- Livestock and climate change, a background paper from ILRI.
- “Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest.” The good news: it’s corporate, so can be pressured to stop.