- Coconut beetle attack in Cambodia.
- Indian Green Revolutionary goes organic.
- Forests leave fingerprint in wine.
- School gardening in Ghana, farmer field school for women and children in Panama.
- WWF launches podcast series “The Wild Things.” Bioversity to counter with “The Cultivated Things.”
- Oldest pottery found in Chinese cave with oldest rice.
- The transition to agriculture “was entered into slowly and reluctantly.” Evidence from the Netherlands, of all places.
- Got an apple orchard? Wanna be a star?
- Hunting down The Fruit Hunters.
Nibbles: CGRFA, Livestock atlas, ITPGRFA, Bighorn, Japan, Wild Europe, Svalbard
- The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture re-launches its website. And also the Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas (GLiPHA). Must be an FAO thing.
- “We are grateful to the governments who have made voluntary contributions to make this possible,” said Dr Shakeel Bhatti, Secretary of the Treaty’s Governing Body.
- Bighorn sheep at risk from climate change, computer says.
- The changing face of Japanese agriculture.
- “We are blurring natural boundaries: forests are no longer forests, meadows are no longer meadows. We have lost sight of eternity and infinity and are destroying nature for future generations.”
- Pope name-checks Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Nibbles: AnGR newsletter, Sheep conservation, Gardener biographies
- Animal Genetic Resources Information Bulletin 44.
- How the Sheep Trust was born.
- Map of British gardeners.
Nibbles: Qat, GAIN, Dates, Mandarin, Eucalypts
- Qat not good for water.
- Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) announces Amsterdam Initiative on Malnutrition (AIM), to eliminate malnutrition for 100 million people in Africa by 2015.
- Eating dates dates back over 4,000 years.
- Intercropping with guava may save citrus from greening on Java.
- To identify salinity tolerant eucalypts, use response of height to salinity, rather than mean height.
Nibbles: Lead, Rice, Transylvania,
- Urban gardeners: beware lead. Via.
- Crested ibis boosts rice and biodiversity.
- Prince Charles a big fan of Transylvanian agrobiodiversity.