Nibbles

Nibbles: Mexico CC, Europe CC, Andean CC, CSA, Seeds, GIAHS, China genebank, Maize domestication, Coffee history, Conservation book

Interactive website on bioclimatic corridors in Mexico. Bits don’t work, though.
Interactive website on climate analogues for Europe.
How Andean farmers are coping with the kind of changes mapped above.
Oh dear, climate smart agriculture is a myth anyway.
But saving seeds isn’t, thankfully.
Still not enough linkage with the GIAHS, though, but maybe this course will fix that.
Maybe start with peafowl? China shows us how.
How maize became a staple: quite early, and quite quickly, basically.
Not much coffee in early English coffeehouses. Amsterdam’s coffeeshops unavailable for comment.
Open-access magnum opus: Conservation Research, Policy and Practice.

The ITPGRFA’s Benefit Sharing Fund at work.
Remembering the Global Nutrition Report. Yes, I know it was only a few days ago.
Measuring poverty from space.
Interview with IITA’s genebank manager.
Humble-bragging the potato. In Spanish.
The Israeli genebank in the news.
Seed saving in China.
DNA from ancient Egyptian emmer.

Plant Health, Animal Health, Human Health and Environmental Health. What’s not to like?
It used to be thought that tobacco and sugar could help with the above. Go figure.
La Cuna del Maíz Mexicano.
The same, but for rice in Asia.
Backyard seed saving, and science.