Nibbles

Nibbles: Interactive key, Cider tax, Drought screening, Egyptian genebank, USDA animal conservation, Homegardens, Bag farms, Soil movie, Breeding Vigna, Cereals yield gap,

Got a Neotropical flowering plant to identify? Kew has what you need.
New Labour goes out with a whimper, and a swipe at cider-makers.
Drought Timing for Agronomic Screening wins a prize.
“We’ve heard about the Gene Bank project which serves to preserve certain cultivars and seed specimens, but we don’t know much else about this project.” Par for the course.
Meanwhile, another genebank does get decent publicity.
Women and homegardens in Bangladesh.
Bag farms in Nairobi slum.
Review of Dirt! The Movie.
Boffins this close to drought-tolerant cowpeas.
“…actual grain yield in some regions is already approximating its maximum possible yields while other regions show large yield gaps and therefore tentative larger potential for intensification.”
The wife is going to the 1st International Symposium on Tropical Horticulture. Jamaica? No, she really wanted to go.

Change at the helm at Crops for the Future. Best wishes to all concerned.
African Rice Congress wraps up. Successfully, no doubt.
Tell you Sacred Garden story. Go on then…
Nigel Chaffey rounds up botanical news. The best of the kind, for my money.
The art of eating durian.
Bye, and thanks for the fish.
DFID on undernutrition in India. Very short on specifics. Where’s the varied diets stuff?
Gotta virus clean those heirloom sweet potatoes.
Latest from CBD ABS negotiations in Cali. Anybody there want to give us the scoop?
Endemic wild tomato relatives from Atacama Desert… I dunno…investigated I guess.
Russian boffin grows apricots in Siberia.

Better sheep through information. From Australia, natch. Thanks, Dirk.
New Farming Matters out. When did this ILEIA magazine change its name? Remains essential reading anyway.
Some participants voice their expectations of the African Rice Congress.
A traditional Malawi meal.
Whole grain recipes.

Food Systems and Public Health: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and Healthier Communities. Quite a mouthful…
Podcast: A Snapshot of Chinese Agriculture with Mike Mulvaney. Mouthwatering.
“…how can agricultural landscapes produce more with less impact?” The BBC tells us.
Florida’s citrus in trouble. Genomics to the rescue?

Software will ease seed availability. No, really.
Enforcement of organic regulations sometimes flawed. No really.
Absinthism a myth. No, really.
Potato film hits big time. No, really.
“Influential” bulls sequenced. No, really.
Tree diseases distribution will change under climate change. No, really?
Boffins in drive to double rice production in Africa. No, really.
Boffins and lawyers meet to sort out biodiversity access and benefit sharing thing. No, really. And, incidentally, what could possibly go wrong?
H5N1 committee wonders whether they have sampled enough. No, really.