- Chocolate makers decide to go green. How about conserving the genetic resources of the crop, though?
- “Being a crop breeder in the modern world sometimes feels like being a fire fighter equipped with a very slow truck.”
- UNDP supports agricultural diversification.
- Reconstructing the aurochs.
- We could all do with some hanami. And a hug.
- Livestock keeping caused the Sahara?
- President of Fiji visits regional genebank. Cue photo of people peering at test tubes.
Nibbles: Give a man a chicken, Pollinator selection, Bananapocalypse redux, Red kiwi, ICARDA genebank, Dark comms, Food design, Traditional diets, Revitalizing villages, Peruvian diversity, Moving botany
- Which should come first, the chicken or the cash? MIL unavailable for comment.
- Pollinators are mini plant breeders.
- Save the Cavendish! No, wait…
- There’s a red kiwi coming. Eventually. No, not left-wing New Zealanders.
- ICARDA decentralizes its genebank. But we knew that.
- GFAR webinars on communicating research.
- Designing food. What could possibly go wrong?
- Decolonize it instead.
- Ecotourism in Portugal. No word on whether decolonized food involved.
- Kickstarter on documenting food crops in Peru, decolonized or not.
- Tracing the colonization and (hopefully) decolonization of economic botany products. Fascinating idea.
Nibbles: Amazon conservation, Radiation breeding, Chocomuseum, Biodiversity survey, Robot phenotyping, C4F, Sheepish
- The latest on the Pristine Myth of the Amazon. And how to protect it.
- Rice going nuclear in Bangladesh.
- NYC gets a chocolate museum.
- What is biodiversity? Answers on a postcard, please…
- Maybe robots can help with that.
- Crops for the Future gets the Virginia Gewin treatment.
- Sheep domestication in half a page.
Nibbles: Meet a breeder, Radiation breeding, Cassava IK, Banana apocalypse, Chestnut doom & gloom, Crazy grafter, Crazy recombination, Obsidian sickle, Cat rug
- Meet a pumpkin breeder.
- Meet the history of atomic plant breeding.
- Meet a cassava anthropologist.
- Dial back the banana apocalypse stuff, banana guy says.
- On the other hand, the American chestnut apocalypse is all too real.
- A really wild pig.
- Grafting gone wild.
- Wild plants reveal a gene to speed plant breeding, someday.
- Beautiful Neolithic tools from the Sea of Galilee.
- And a beautiful, but slightly freaky, Egyptian rug. Made of cat hair.
Nibbles: Wheat rust, Coconut history, Svalbard, Cahokia, Millets, Politics, Crones & robots, Citrus history, Argan development
- Rust continues to never sleep.
- The discussion of whether there were coconuts on the Pacific coast of Panama prior to the Conquista continues on the Coconut Google Group.
- ICARDA and CIMMYT continue to love the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
- Climate change continues to be implicated in past societal collapses.
- NPR continues to plug those millets.
- Cautionary tale of Vavilov and Lysenko continues to be told, thankfully.
- The rise and rise of the drone continues. See what I did there?
- The relentless popular culture journey of citrus continues.
- And that of argan begins.