Nutrition

Nibbles: Food sovereignty, Calories, Fortilizers, Barley, Climate changed coconuts, Global hunger index, Halloween food, World Food Day

Native tribes in the US want more food sovereignty.
People underreport the calories they consume shock. Research sponsored by Coke not a shock.
For nutritionally fortified food, fortify the fertilizers first.
German scientists working round to clock to decipher barley DNA and save Oktoberfest from climate-induced drought.
Climate change, however, is a double-edged sword for coconuts in Guyana.
2013 Global Hunger Index says world hunger remains “serious”.
Is all that scary enough to put you off your food?
Relax, it’s World Food Day, everything’s gonna be alright.

We missed the first UK fungus day yesterday.
And the new world record pumpkin. Love that wide-angle lens, BTW.
And a training course on plant genetic resources and genebank management.
But not plant biodiversity to regenerate more productive pastures.
Nor efforts to conserve navara red rice.
Kudos to Ghana, the first country with a national yam strategy.
And to Australia, for muddying the linguistic waters with something called a PlantBank.
Local farmers supply the food for school meals in Africa.
By far the strangest thing I’ve seen since a seed exploded a spliff some while ago.

Yet another blog post about heirloom apples. Why not heirloom, I don’t know, grains?
Yet another genebank opens.
On the other hand, can never have too many agrobiodiversity songs.
Banks? someone mention banks? Biodiversity hotspots are like (some) banks. Too big to fail.
Even crop wild relative hotspots?
1491: Amazon.
1493: New England. Hope Charles Mann won’t mind me borrowing his tropes.
Interesting use of technology to deliver interesting presentation on mainstreaming of nutrition in agricultural development. Anyone know how it was done?

The Guide for the Perplexed Entering the Maze of Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore. Great title.
IRRI DG blogs about Golden Rice on World Sight Day. In other news, there’s a World Sight Day.
Indian farmers ever more marginal.
If they were in Africa, they’d be producing nutritious school meals.
Book on camel biodiversity.
Turns out Jeremy is part of a movement that he apparently didn’t even know existed.
Are you involved in the UNFCCC agriculture negotiations? You’ll need this handy communications tool-kit. Agricultural biodiversity is in there somewhere.
Not sure that eels are, but maybe they should be.

The Committee on World Food Security is meeting in Rome. If that’s the kind of thing that whets your appetite, follow #cfs40 on Twitter.
Where, if it’s not too late, you’ll find me offering mouth-watering nutritional advice.
Up a gum tree; ICRAF clones puffpo piece. Whatever happened to added value?
GBIF — the Global Biodiversity Information Facility — has a new portal. But is it a better portal?
And you can watch GBIF’s Science Symposium 2013 live in just under 85 minutes, and counting.