Nibbles

Tragic. But was cassava really to blame?
Breeding the wind out of cows.
“I just got back from Italy, where there are now 250 breweries. A few years ago, there were only 20 or 30. They’re on the verge of an explosion of beer culture…” Really? I do hope so.

Nibbles: Vegetable seeds, Colorado potato beetle, Castanea, Pigs, Condiments, Porpoise, Biofuels, Mouflon, Blackwood

European are growing more vegetables. But how much of that is heirlooms?
Canadian boffins grow wild potatoes for the leaves.
Chinese wasp going to roast Italy’s chestnuts.
The genetics of swine geography. Or is it the geography of swine genetics?
The diversity of sauces.
Cooking Flipper.
Genetically engineered brewer’s yeast + cellulose-eating bacterium + biomass = methyl halides.
Wild sheep runs wild in Cyrpus.
“It can be planted in farms because it does not compete for resources with corn, coffee or bananas and acts as a nitrogen-fixing agent in the soil. The mpingo is also considered a good luck tree by the Chagga people who live on the slopes of the Mt. Kilimanjaro.”

“Estimates indicate that 50% of the indigenous goat, 30% of sheep, 20% of cattle and almost all poultry breeds are threatened.”
Fiji studies breadfruit varieties.
Research grants for young scientists in developing countries. ABD is in. Via .
CIAT has a blog, and it’s pretty.
Small coffee farmers honoured in Peru. For conservation!

Fiat ghost paper. From bamboo.
“If a cow burps, how do you measure it?“
Recruiting drive: “I want you to continue to be my little ambassadors in your own home and your own communities.”
“Insects and humans compete for food.” Say it isn’t so, Lubin Library.