Nutrition

Nibbles: Ipomoea CWR, Toe cheese, Millets revolution, World diets, Brassica diversification, Diversity & productivity, Gossypium genome, MsDonalds, NNL & NPI

Where should we collect sweet potato wild relatives?
Cheese made from toe bacteria. Because we can.
The sainted M.S. Swaminathan on millets.
FAO brings together dietary guidelines from around the world.
An infographic on kale origins.
Diversity down, productivity down. At least in Alaska.
Cotton’s got a genome.
McDonalds commits to ending deforestation in its supply chain.
IUCN report says commercial agriculture and forestry could could actually be good for biodiversity. Hope McDonalds read it.

Agriculture and the SDGs in one nice infographic thingy.
Seeds: The Book.
Seeds like millets?
Those medievals really knew how to eat.
An obsessive botanist? Whatever next.
Deconstructing chocolate, one gene at a time.
Sake 101. And for a more in-depth look…
Joseph Simcox, self-described “Internationally Renowned World Food Plant Resource Authority” takes you “on a World Adventure to learn about little known edible plants!” On Facebook.
A journey into the heart of CIMMYT. They’ll even screen your maize for you.
The people’s breeder.
Tracing wine to its source: Georgia.
Harvesting cinnamon. With video goodness.
FAO unleashes its mighty comms machine on another poor neglected crop: yam bean. Not many people hurt.
Watch out jackfruit, you’re probably next.
Or maybe saskatoon berries (Amelanchier alnifolia).

More of a proper catch-up Nibbles later, but these should hold you for a while.

Le Figaro goes to Svalbard.
But Wired goes into much more depth on the tragic situation in Syria.
Many AgAtlas pages now include interactive mapping and data download, eg AEZ. About time :)
Looking for information on varieties of ornamental plants? Look no further.
Diversity in wild European apples: past, present and future.
Genetic garden opens in Bangalore.
The perils of sandalwood smuggling.
Dam the Amazon, full speed ahead! What will happen to all that human body bacteria diversity?
ICRISAT’s new DG has a blog. Looking forward to his first foray into the genebank.
Lots of stuff on African traditional veggies in AVRDS’s latest newsletter.
The swimming camels of Gujarat get protection. I’d pay money to see them, I really would.
Patagonian women farmers are doing it for themselves, at last.

That 2000-year old date palm seed is all grown up.
And since we’re talking ancient stuff: ornithology in the service of egyptology.
Citizen scientists track phenology.
Citizen scientists find new species.
Let’s hear it for cover crops.
Turns out it’s ok for hipsters to eat quinoa.
Sorghum takes over the Great Plains. (Well, not really.) And not only… Who needs quinoa.
Especially when you have teff.
And while we’re on gluten: need to make up for that off-colour quip in the last Nibbles.
Malnutrition. Mapped. Including that much-discussed Missing Middle? Hang on, wait, here’s another nutrition mapping thing.
African leafy greens in Benin get a video. Map that!
Farmers make good extensionists.
Chocolate workshops at Kew.
Caribbean chocolate to get a make-over. Somebody telling Kew?

Rather good advocacy video from the Deccan Development society.

Of course, you might get the impression from the film that nobody else has given millets a thought, but hey, that’s advocacy for you.