- IITA’s Hartmann on the BBC.
- Bats protect coffee plants from insect pests.
- GBIF grants awards, pollinators well covered.
- New fungal disease threatens avocado production.
Nibbles: Donkeys, UG99, fruit GI, negected species, Spore
- Cypriot wild donkeys in trouble.
- Gates Foundation tackles wheat rust UG99. Phew!
- Malaysians measure fruit glycemic indices, no mention of varieties.
- English exposed to neglected species.
- Sorry, missed the redesigned Spore.
Nibbles: Tangled Bank
- If you’re here from Tangled Bank 102, welcome. Go vote, please. If you’re here anyway, go read Tangled Bank.
- Bleeding canker threatens British horse chestnuts.
- Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, fertilizers threaten the Drumstick Truffleclub.
- Michael Pollan welcomes higher food prices. And more on his new book on “nutritionism”: eat food (not individual nutrients); mostly plant-derived; in reasonable amounts.
- Breadfruit balls anyone? Try charging more for that delicacy, Michael!
- Or, indeed, this. Or any of these for that matter.
- The weird food stuff just keeps on coming. Now there’s buzz about camel cheese. And a Peanut Lolita to help it down?
- Horizon scanning spots 25 novel threats to biodiversity in UK. Agrobiodiversity apparently totally safe. Phew.
Nibbles: cats, pulses, cherries
- The World Cat Congress is on. Hipsters hanging out, smoking dope, listening to jazz, I imagine. Very select, though.
- Canadian boffins evaluate nutritional differences among pulse cultivars. Regular readers recognize leitmotif.
- Celebrity chefs try to save British cherry orchards. Madame Ranevskaya happy to hear it.
Nibbles: lard, ICTs, rice maps
- Leave the mozzarella. Take the lard.
- Great post, great paper on mobile phones and the price of fish. Via.
- Rice distribution maps, current and historical.