Nibbles: Climate ready, Commoners, Beer, Banana collecting, Roman food, Indian corn
- Demoing new varieties in Mali.
- Old ways of doing things in the New Forest.
- Nice roundup of beer in ancient history.
- Profile of supercool banana guy Gabriel Sachter-Smith.
- Eat like a Roman.
- Eat like a (multiracial) Southerner.
Nibbles: MSB birthday, Ethiopia impact, Coffee threats, African greens
- It’s 20 years of the Millennium Seed Bank. Happy birthday!
- CGIAR summarizes 20 years of impact in Ethiopia.
- In 20 years, half of Africa’s coffee land could be gone. Well, 30, but I need to keep this streak going.
- Must have been about 20 years ago that systematic research on African indigenous vegetables really took off, and now look.
Nibbles: F2F, Jute, IITA, ICARDA, ILRI, Grazing
- USDA throws shade on EU’s Farm to Fork strategy. I see trouble in its future.
- Turns out jute has a future.
- Is CRISPR the banana’s future?
- How Svalbard gave ICARDA’s genebank a future.
- Ensuring the future of Ethiopia’s livestock through forage seeds.
- The future of Europe’s meadows is livestock. No word on forage seed or Farm to Fork.
Nibbles: Avocado development, Marketing seeds, Saving seeds, Lettuce DNA
- Avocado value chain gets it together. Hope some money flows back to the genebank.
- Indian women fall back on vegetable seeds.
- A seed saving network takes root in Kenya.
- CGN teams up with BGI to sequence its lettuce collection.