- Learn about iron beans from a HarvestPlus video, maybe.
- Learn about the tomato in Ghana, more than you might need to know if you read all the reports.
- Learn how Andy Jarvis spoke truth to ex-power, about fruit data gathering project prospects.
- Learn how the Africa College, based at Leeds University in the UK, is working on a range of agricultural problems.
Nibbles: Cryocourse, Pollination stats, Corn domestication
- Bioversity and NBPGR India offering course on cryopreservation.
- Scientia Pro Publica #35 blog carnival is up, with bees factchecked up the wazoo.
- Big long post helps understand corn domestication dates in Chaco Canyon.
Nibbles: Biochar, Breeding, Ag exports
- Is biochar the answer for ag? asks the headline. No, but it might be an answer, we reply.
- The Toad points us to a video on Organic Plant Breeding in Denmark.
- Guess where China gets loads of its soybeans. And cotton. And nuts.
Nibbles: Huitlacoche, Failure, Food sovereignty, Cold storage, Hunger, Prices
- Mat Kinase discover best smut ever.
- World Bank embraces failure. Now there’s an idea. More here.
- I really don’t have time today for Food sovereignty in Africa: The people’s alternative. Anyone care to interpret?
- Kremlin now tweeting in English. No word yet on Pavlovsk.
- Kenya invests in new market facilities … to improve exports of food.
- Rachel Laudan considers hunger — and celebrates David Livingstone.
- Speaking of which, wanna understand food price spikes? Me too.
Nibbles: Trojan Horse? Farmer preferences, Yucca moths, Bees, GM bananas, Coffee
- This is not a Trojan Horse. Madcap agrobiodiversity antics in Abruzzo, Italy. No, I don’t get it either.
- Farmers are willing to forego some extra income or yield to obtain a more stable and environmentally adaptable crop variety. They are? Someone tell the Nabobs.
- Yucca moths and yuccas; an astonishing evolutionary story.
- Bee research gets USD1.5 million for a big database. Hope it helps.
- “GM bananas could cut blindness, anaemia in East Africa.” Because nothing else will?
- Coffee, a history.