Nibbles

Nibbles: GIPB, NPGS, Dogs for conservation, Harare gardens, Goat milk value added, Equator Prize, Humanitarian relief, Peruvian maize, Pseudo-cereals, Katine, Vavilov goes web 2.0, Travel, Haggis ban, African road datasets, Dyes, Adaptation pix, Baltic, AnGR, Jatropha

GIPB revamps its website. Knowledge Resource Centre is ver. 4.0, no less.
US National Plant Germplasm System explained to Canadians. Why? They have their own!
Armadillo sniffing dogs.
More urban farming in Zimbabwe.
Interesting stuff you can make with goat milk.
Who do you like for Equator Prize 2010? Avatar? No, wait, that’s something else. Well, actually…
Nutrition for humanitarian workers.
Large-eared white maize is ‘cultural heritage’ of Peru. So that’s all good then.
Minor cereals and a gluten-free diet.
Wanna talk to Katine? Ask about what the project is doing with/about agrobiodiversity, of course!
Nikolay tweets!
Agricultural and other assorted musings along the Mekong. Can’t help thinking that if you somehow aggregated all similar observations and geo-referenced them you’d come up with a pretty interesting picture of agriculture worldwide.
A blow for Scottish agrobiodiversity and cuisine.
Digitizing Africa’s roads.
Natural dyes 101.
IUCN photos of climate change adaptation. Includes agriculture! Well, sort of.
Nordic agricultural scientists to discuss climate change adaptation. Grow bananas?
Breeding Strategies for Sustainable Management of Animal Genetic Resources from FAO. Via.
ATREE questions Jatropha.

Science: Biodiversity is good even for biofuels.
Science: Lack of annual diversity is bad for no-till maize (corn).
Science: “Dead” bananas can still transmit banana bunchy top virus BBTV.
Science: Potential biological control identified for coffee berry borer. (Eeeyew warning.)
Art: Biological control (Lilioceris near impressa) of air potato (Dioscorea bulbifera). (Gorgeousness warning.)
Science: Farmers brought farming to Britain.
Science and art: A rose is a rose is a rose.
Science: Black-eyed peas in Dakar gig.

Learn urban aquaculture.
Learn phylogenetics online.
Learn about the CGIAR’s manifesto for agriculture and climate change from Andy’s new blog.
Learn about the importance of hide processing in East Africa.
Learn about the latest blow to British cooking.
Learn about monastic gardening.
Learn about the USDA’s microbial collections. They’re agrobiodiversity too.
Learn what is the latest crop to get its genome sequenced.
Learn about a private livestock genebank in the US.
Learn about the effect of biofuel crop diversity on insect diversity.

Want potato diversity? In the US? Tom Wagner’s your man.
I should do more than nibble Gary’s insightful views on extremism, especially in relation to grass-fed beef and a bit of biochar. But hey, it’s Sunday.
George Orwell contemplates smoking mutton. Jeremy asks: “Can anyone tell me more about acatie, from the Savoie?”
The Scientist Gardener dives into bull semen. Love that second footnote!