- Diversifying crop production for the SDGs: the view from AVRDC.
- Local bread, in India and Istanbul.
- Foresters get all genetic.
- Winning the battle against citrus greening in Florida.
- Yeah, so what happened in Marrakech?
- Do chickpeas really have the nutritional value of cardboard?
- An apple genebank a day…
- Drawing the International Year of Quinoa to a decorous close.
Nibbles: Cryoconservation, Barley history, Beer in UNESCO, Future crops, Pacific crops, Ag & biodiversity, Sequencing NUS, Market education, Mauritanian camels
- Cryo congress coming.
- Ancient farmers enjoyed a beer…
- …and now we all can.
- Yeah but what’s next in the improvement pipeline?
- CePaCT: The Video.
- Why can’t we all just get along?
- Genetic maps are from Mars, nutrition is from Venus…
- Using markets to teach biodiversity.
- The end of camel herding?
Nibbles: Two conferences and a breeding
- Conference: Known, forgotten and lost grains, Symposia of Greek Gastronomy, Crete, next summer.
- Conference: Crop Diversification in a Changing World – Mobilizing the green gold of plant genetic resources, Eucarpia, Montpellier, next spring.
- Breeding the kale of the future, which, it seems, might be less like kale.
Nibbles: Bluebirds, Quinoa
- Bluebirds: friend or foe? Shit knows.
- Where would you hold a conference on Quinoa for Future Food and Nutrition Security in Marginal Environments? Dubai, natch.
Nibbles: Sweet potato, Horse genetics, Sandy Knapp video, Rumphius, Rice breeding, Banana breeding, Medieval vegetables, Tomatoes & witchcraft, Native American corn
- On a day that we hope will be historic for the right reason…
- The history of the sweet potato.
- The history of the horse.
- The history of the study of plant diversity. And more.
- The history of IR8.
- The banana is not yet history.
- The history of vegetables. And more.
- The continuing history of Iroquois corn.