Nibbles

Nibbles: Cattle nutrition, Maize, Freshwater biota, Modeling maize, Rice, Book, Veg, Urban ag

Climate change ain’t going to be good for cattle.
But will be fabulous for breeders of drought-resistant maize.
A fifth of Africa’s freshwater plants and animals threatened. How many of these are important to local people’s nutrition and health? A lot, I bet.
Just a couple guys, modeling the spread of maize genetic diversity in the Americas.
Uganda turns to wild relatives for new rice varieties.
Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century recognizes importance of agrobiodiversity. Good to know.
New Agriculturalist revisits veg-garden-in-a-sack.
FAO policy brief on urban agriculture.

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.