- 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.
Nibbles: Aphids, Chef wanted, Spanish ham, Obama, Neem
- “The most closely related aphids were those feeding on the same host species, rather than those from the same geographic area.”
- “I’m looking for a restaurant chef who would like to spend some time with me, learn something about my garden and the plants I’m growing, and experiment with cooking some dishes and possibly serving them to a small number of customers. ”
- “It isn’t sustainable, it isn’t very natural, but it tastes great.”
- Filipinos set up seaweed genebank and nursery.
- Eat the View: the Story of the White House Garden Campaign.
- “Foreign varieties of cotton and date palms have become a threat to local species here in Upper Sindh. …these varieties are affecting agriculture, forest and environment of Sindh, this threat can be overcome with the plantation of the Neem Tree.”