- Yay Big Agriculture!
- Don’t listen to them: yay agroecology!
- Come down everyone, DW with the balanced view on open seeds.
- Meanwhile, there’s a project to document all the garlic varieties grown in Canada.
- And the Community Seed Network is hard at work.
- All those seeds are going to have to be kept alive: this is how the CGIAR genebanks do it.
- Morocco thinks about legalizing kif.
- Need help phenotyping your kif, Morocco?
- Soon there will be lots of sequence information on that kif, and then you’ll need a way to regulate access, and this study for the European Commission might help.
- Ok you’ll need a palate cleanser after that, I suspect: Roman gardens, perhaps?
Nibbles: Congress, Soil, Beans, Harlan book, Rare fruits, Community seed banks, Wild sunflower, Broken food system
Nibbles: Honeybees, Jeremy on farro, PNG ag origins, Filipino rice, Overproduction
- The myth of honeybee extinction in the wild.
- Myths about farro.
- The myth of agricultural determinism.
- The myth of landrace uselessness.
- The greatest myth of all?
Nibbles: Australian genebank, John Innes Centre genebank, Seeds at the Food Systems Summit
Nibbles: Real farming, Ancient farming, Organic farming, Open farming, Innovative farming, African maize farming
- Colin Tudge and Jeremy rethink agriculture.
- Wait, so it’s not about producing an energy surplus?
- Maybe the rethink can include Seed Ambassadors?
- Seeds4All is quite the thought.
- Who needs a rethink when there’s a whole book on how plant breeding can contribute to sustainable agriculture?
- Well, it can certainly pay off, at least money-wise. But does that need a rethink?