- Kings, queens and mangosteens. Luigi to report shortly.
- Threshing sorghum? On yer bike!
- Oh rats! Dietary diversity in Niger.
Nibbles: Bats and bananas, Extension, Russian animal harvests, Rice improvement, Sacred groves
Nibbles: Treaty, EU ministers, Sustainability
- Scidev.net explains how “deadlock broken on international seed sharing“. Don’t hold your breath.
- EU environment ministers “‘deeply concerned’ by biodiversity loss“. Don’t hold your breath.
- Report says “investment in global agriculture will become critically important“. Don’t hold your breath.
Nibbles: Agroforestry, Forecasts, Coffee, Pigs, GIS, Potatoes
- North American Agroforestry; new edition of an old book.
- “Supply will go up, demand will go up, and real prices of grain and oilseeds also will go up” over next 10 years. That’s nice.
- Nescafe coffee goes green in Philippines.
- Rare-breed jamon at $490 a leg. Not so marginal any more.
- Visualizing Tweeter biodiversity observations. Over to you, Luigi.
- Ireland hosts International Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium meeting. Well, obviously.
Nibbles: Granaries, Scotland, Heirlooms, Argan
- World’s oldest granaries. Storage predates cultivation.
- Scots go nuts for forested agriculture.
- “I pity the poor servers whose duty it will be to describe not only the vegetables’ provenance, but their pedigree as well.”
- All about argan.