- Tea to get quality standards, geographic indications. Luigi’s mother-in-law unavailable for comment, but would probably say everybody already knows her tea is high quality and where it comes from.
- And speaking of Africa and commodities…
- Pygmy hog saved from extinction. Pocket pigs deny involvement.
- Big write-up of Ryton Organic Garden. Jeremy bound to comment.
- Perigord black truffle under threat from Chinese invader. Stock up now.
Nibbles: Tangled Bank, Banana, Films, Biofuels, DOC
- Tangled Bank 105 is up. Ag-related: safe fugu bred, and canine genetics. Down boy.
- Gene Expression blogs Banana (the book). Interesting comments too.
- Indian women make films to protect biodiversity. P’raps they’ll enter our next competition?
- US to scale back corn-for-booze subsidy by whopping 12%?
- Sardinian saffron to be protected.
Nibbles: Drugs, Cotton, Localsource, Bees, Sunflowers
- Insights into Dutch cannabis breeding. Dude unavailable for comment.
- Cotton diversity link-fest.
- Head of World Food Programme on buying locally.
- US bee health: not good. Via.
- Australian sunflowers to improve US varieties; Luigi more confused than ever.
Nibbles: NUS, Value-added, Values, Genebank, IPR
- New Agriculturist focuses on neglected species.
- Chocolate, wine… Fellow could have himself a pretty good weekend in Vegas with that lot.
- Irish evaluate biodiversity, apparently ignore agriculture.
- Sasa schemes to save Scottish landraces.
- The Indian Seed and Patent Acts dissected.
Nibbles: reindeer
- Reindeer vary in domesticability, have been independently domesticated a couple of times. Santa Claus unavailable for comment.