Nibbles

Nibbles: Climate change vid, Lemongrass, Millets, GHUs, US potatoes

Nice video on Future Climate for Africa.
Indian forest communities diversify with lemongrass to help out with their climate change resilience.
Have they tried millets, though? According to Millet Finder, millet products are taking over the world, so marketing should be no problem.
If they don’t have seeds, they can get them from genebanks, via Germplasm Health Units, of course. The impact pathways of genebanks goes through GHUs.
The Russet Burbank sure has had a big impact.

Podcast on saving crop diversity every which way you can.
Because it can be lost.
Yes, lost, but, with some effort, bison permitting, found again.
Wild relatives too, of course.
And maybe then rematriated, even used for a greener agriculture, who knows.
So that eventually it can make it into things like Legume Perspective, the cool journal of the International Legume Society that was inexplicably unknown to me until just now.

Why do seeds matter?
Where do bumblebees matter?
Where bananas really matter.
How to eat like it matters.
Nutella matters a little too much perhaps.
Biodiversity matters to investors. Crop diversity unavailable for comment, or consideration, apparently.

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.