Nibbles

Nibbles: Ragone award, CC impacts, Uganda AGR genebank, Spanish livestock, Indian community genebank, COGENT in India, RTB and CC, Sudden oak death

Diane Ragone is Distinguished Economic Botanist for 2020.
Climate change is reducing consumable calories by about 1% a year for the top 10 crops globally.
East Africa to get a livestock genebank. Will they use this “universal tool“?
Meanwhile, transhumance is hanging on in Spain.
Another community seed bank in India.
And the international coconut genebank will survive.
Roots, tubers and banana to increase in importance, but will need investment.
Indigenous tribes to be involved in fight against sudden oak death in California.

The link between language and biodiversity loss.
Cacao genebank does more than conserve cacao diversity.
Singapore gets into seed-banking. Not cacao, though.
Sachs proposes big coffee fund to ensure sustainably. No word on genebanks, though.
If you want to increase the cultivation of an insect-pollinated crop, you should diversify your agriculture.
Sustainable not necessarily equal to organic.

The Half-Earth Map is better than none.
Repurposing rice fields in the off season to help out California’s Chinook salmon.
Photogenic melons.
A famous community seed bank is in trouble.
While elsewhere in India, a new genebank takes off.

Collecting beans in the American SW.
Chilis too.
Updated map of Neolithic expansion in Europe.
The Microbiota Vault is a thing.
Wind-flavoured cheese.
But is chuño worth saving, really?
The art of rice diversity.
Using Jerry Maguire to explain the Plant Treaty. It is not well done. But one is surprised to see it done at all.