- Cicadas are good, and good for you.
- Genes from “foreign” wheat played significant role in improving Chinese wheat.
- Spain publishes plan for the conservation, improvement and promotion of livestock breeds.
- Milk Matters. To Somali children in Ethiopia, in this case.
- Winners of ACSS awards for 2009 announced.
- “Conserving Ethiopia’s biodiversity far from adequate.” Or so says Ethiopia’s report to CBD. Some agrobiodiversity included.
- New Agriculturalist is out. Rejoice.
- Andy Jarvis on the value of geo-referencing.
Nibbles: Forest fires, integration
- Fire-fighters should heed forest diversity. Now there’s a thought.
- “Resilient integration of industrial and organic agriculture.” Now there’s a thought.
Nibbles: Climate, Fertilizers
- Sustainable Agriculture: The Unrecognized Key to Reversing Climate Change. Unrecognized by whom?
- Fred Pearce says: Cold turkey on nitrogen, now. It’s our only hope.
Nibbles: Garlic, Ruminants cubed, Rice, Seed saving
- Garlic diversity evaluated. Vampire-blocking not assessed.
- The movements of Ice Age bison in Canada and Bronze Age cattle in Britain deconstructed.
- The plight of the banteng.
- Natural NERICA? Well, maybe, but at what frequencies?
- Seed Savers Handbook online. Jeremy conflicted.
Nibbles: Climate change, Papaya sex, Inheritance, AGCommons
- “New study warns that climate change could create agricultural winners and losers in east Africa.” Any other possibilities?
- “Researchers to perform sex change operation on papaya.” Bang goes a bunch of sexual diversity.
- Inherited wealth is good for farmers, better for herders, lousy for hunters.
- AGCommons is a CGIAR project to deliver information to farmers in Africa. Watch their new video, with added Andy Jarvis goodness.