- Camels make a comeback in Rajasthan.
- Globalization comes to Russian kvas production.
- Mangosteen finally allowed into US. NY Times video about exotic fruits. Via.
- While the rest of the world frets about high food prices, US declares National Watermelon Month.
- USDA tries to keep abreast of honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder.
- Teaching about soil microbial agrobiodiversity.
Nibbles: Ecotourism, food aid
- Community tourism sounds like fun: “feeding pigs, planting vegetables, harvesting fruits.”
- Norman Borlaug says USAID should buy food aid locally.
Nibbles: Barcoding, forests, social networking
- Trees to be barcoded. Including cultivated ones?
- This would be a good place to start.
- Nature Conservancy to relaunch ConserveOnline.org, a free online community for conservation practitioners.
Nibbles: Seed aid
- Seed aid not always a good thing.
Nibbles: Trees, AGRA, pig meat, culinodiversity, fund raising, seed, data
- Let them eat leaves: farmers to plant trees in Kenya.
- For the archives: Rockefeller Foundation’s original blueprint for A Green Revolution for Africa (PDF).
- Keeping it real, computers and genetics monitor Iberian ham.
- Eat diversity to conserve it.
- Three-headed coconut tree for sale. To you, one million bucks.
- Video on FAO seed project in Afghanistan. I just hope somebody’s taking care of the landraces.
- Scientists exhorted to geo-reference. IRRI GIS staff unavailable for comment.