- The Resilient Seed Systems Shared Action Framework is out.
- 15 rice varieties are protected through Geographic Indication in India.
- Kids’ book about native seeds.
- Hacking the arms race between crops and pathogens.
- Domestication entailed a change in adaptation from megafauna to people as dispersal agents. Here’s the correct link to the study.
- Weed of rice became more rice-like due to hand weeding.
- Maize is being abandoned in its heartland. And yet there are calls for a milpa in every home.
Nibbles: Innovation, CWR, Pathogens, Forage, Phenotyping
- Innovations for sustainable food systems: genebanks are in there but frankly I find the whole thing a bit problematic. Just gonna leave that there. Feel free to comment here.
- Colin Khoury’s backstory. Also some CWR.
- The fight against pathogens. Of plants, settle down.
- Better Napier grass is good for everyone. Including the cows. But wait, “…[i]t doesn’t really matter which grass…”
- Phenome2020 recapped.
Nibbles: Columella, Thomas Bowrey, Dreamtime, Oz seedbank, Kenya sweetpotato, Dalla Ragione, Apple hunter, Cydonia, Caribbean nutmeg, Wheat synthetics, ICARDA forages, Land cover map
- Recreating Roman wine. It’s the tar, stupid.
- Decolonizing weed.
- Ancient Aboriginal foraging and cooking was quite something.
- The National Seed Bank at the Australian National Botanic Garden makes the news. See what I did there?
- So does sweetpotato in Kenya.
- Turning to art to find lost fruit varieties in Italy.
- Remembering Lee Calhoun of North American Fruit Explorers.
- Bringing back the quince. That’s the fruit trifecta.
- Might as well bring nutmeg back too.
- CIMMYT’s synthetic hexaploid wheat programme explained in a PowerPoint.
- Report on screening ICARDA’s wild forages.
- Nerd out with cool land cover map in Google Earth Engine. Mash up with above, for example?
Nibbles: Medieval Iceland, Lebanese wine, Yemeni coffee, Ghana cowpea, SeedShare, Roman hamburger
- Ag diversification was a thing even in medieval Iceland.
- Not to mention contemporary Lebanon.
- Dumping qat for coffee is the good news we all wanted to hear. Jeremy provides the context.
- Ghana gets some new cowpeas. I just think it’s cool that they made the news.
- The joys of seed saving: the backstory of SeedShare.
- Procuring a hamburger in ancient Rome. This is a great sub-Reddit, BTW.
Nibbles: Indian rice edition
- Odisha traditional rice varieties on display.
- Bringing back traditional rice varieties.
- Cricketer praises farmer for growing traditional rice varieties.