Nibbles

Nibbles: NordGen, Wollemi backyards, Coral genebank, Food security, Cherokee chefs, Community seed bank

Nordics upgrade genebank database.
Crowdsourcing Wollemi pine conservation.
Corals need a genebank too. And a database and crowdsourcing as well, no doubt.
Though I’m not sure they’ll be able to make the food security argument.
Or bring chefs on board.
What would a community genebank look like for coral, I wonder. And are they hiring?

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.