Nibbles

Nibbles: Easter Island, Quail, Kimchi, Assisted migration, Solar, Training materials, Ancient wine squared, Economics, Wild food

People of Rapa Nui innovated as they collapsed.
“Extinct” Bird Seen, Eaten. Sorry, National Geographic, but I can’t better that headline. Worthy of Fark.
Kimchi madness.
Coming to a protected are near you: moving species to save them from climate change. CWR, anyone?
Shrinking the C footprint of traditional peanut processing. Via.
15 Evolutionary Gems: alas, nothing from crops, livestock. Surely domestication could have made it in there.
“Bulgarian wine cellars have already announced that they will plant vines with the mysterious and newly recovered variety of grapes near the Orpheus tomb.”
And more ancient wine, this time from Malta.
Bioversity International wises up on dismal science, launches new economics webpages.
Wild forest foods big hit at FAO booth at Lao and International Food Festival last weekend in Vientiane.

Sweet potatoes in space. Why?
Oblong grapes. Why?
Mega targets of selection. Why?
Uganda battles cassava and banana diseases.
Increased bamboo production will not, repeat NOT, put the panda at risk.
Mandatory disclosure of source and origin for Genetic Resources (GR) and Traditional Knowledge (TK) unpacked. Well, kinda.
Gates funds cacao, cashew value chain. But not conservation, it seems.

Bees under lots of “sub-lethal stresses.” I know how they feel.
Hadzabe, who have been doing it for thousands of years, to be trained in honey production.
Chinese farmers to be taught law of diminishing returns.
“Workers at the Egyptian Desert Gene Bank in Cairo harvest and grow threatened desert species in its laboratory before replanting them to their native soils, hoping to revitalize threatened desert species.”
Lao National Nutrition Policy puts nutrition at the centre of development.
Economic botany and architectural fripperies.
Got milk?

Global Crop Diversity Trust “on track” to reinvigorate 100,000 varieties, “one of the largest and most successful biological rescue efforts ever undertaken”. Jeremy says: “Kariba Dam.”
More reasons to go perennial. And native to boot.
Farmers go crazy with Striga-resistant maize.
Design-a-pooch just around the corner, thanks to genome sequencing. Well it was all worth it then, wasn’t it.
AVRDC teaches Solomons farmers to save seeds, grandma to suck eggs.
Mulberries cryopreserved. Yay! Now for that productivity.
Turning grapes to raisins, swords to plowshares, in Afghanistan.
District Fishery Officer (In-charge) tells of guy “farming in a floodplain adjacent to Coler Beel under the same upazila and earns a net profit of Taka 9 lakh after selling 80 metric tons of harvested fish from the Beel last year.”
Abaca: quantity or quality?

Paan unwrapped — betel leaf, areca nut.
“We were suffering; we had no food to eat so we tried to make a garden.”
IITA comes up with technique to propagate yams through vine cuttings using carbonized rice husks as growth medium. Worlds beats path to Ibadan.
The Virgin Fresh Apicultural Project is cool, but needs a new name.
Sorghum makes big move from wallboards to gas and booze.
Great Witley sweeter than Peruvian. No, not weed, dude.
The vicuna: use it or lose it. They did, so they didn’t.