- “Can corn be taught to fix its own nitrogen?” Probably not.
- Many saffron clones identical shock.
- New Agriculturist on agrobiodiversity conservation and use in the Pacific in general and Pohnpei in particular. Go Local!
- An idiosyncratic take on carrot diversity and history.
- The Indigenous Food Systems Network has a new website. h/t PAR
- Landscape of Quarantine, an exhibition that addresses, among other things, the spread of pests and diseases.
- Semillas Sagradas — Sacred Seeds.
Nibbles: Rabbit, Evolution, Water purification, Micronutrients, Report, Diversification, Pest epidemic, Drylands
Nibbles: Climate, Shitstorm, Fish, Food, Biotech, Talk, Drought, Bananas
- Community-based adaptation to climate change. A book from IIED.
- This really is outrageous. Manure is now a pollutant in the world’s most wasteful economy. h/t Ethicurean.
- Where have all the fishes gone, gone to flowers every one.
- Dept. of Uh-huh: Innovation in traditional foodstuffs could harm their image.
- Dept. of Uh-huh Pt 2: An over-dependence on genetically modified organisms to boost agricultural production eclipses other biotechnologies and their potential to benefit poor farmers in developing countries.
- Adam Forbes is giving a talk about his seed-searching travels, March 22, Princeton, NJ. Go! Report!
- Malawi’s miracle laid low by drought?
- IITA leads seven African nations against banana diseases.
Nibbles: Olives, Livestock, Data, Data sharing, Cheese paring, Book, tanzania
- Old California olives shared. More details later, I hope.
- Livestock in the balance, an FAO report. Did we already gnaw on this?
- Assessing urban biodiversity. Any veg with that?
- How to share biodiversity data. Any informatics with that?
- Fromgirls??? Cheesecake urges surrender-monkeys to eat more cheese.
- Biocultural Diversity Conservation, a new book from earthscan. We’ll let you know about ag when we’ve seen it.
- Challenges for Tanzanian seed sector. (No, not that blasted sorghum.)
Nibbles: Rhubarb and the EU, Mexican biodiversity Qat in Yemen, Organic cubed
- Rhubarb safe at long last. Rejoice! The BBC does, sort of.
- Biodiversidad Mexicana website lists plants with centres of origin/diversity in that country, with references.
- Sometimes agrobiodiversity is downright bad for you.
- And here’s today’s story on the “organic” urban vegetable gardens of Havana.
- But China?
- Oh, and, apparently, the US midwest too. And they just had a conference there.