Nutrition

Nibbles: Potato blight, Ag statistics, Biofortification, Biofortified potatoes, Insect food, Genuine mozzarella, Agricultural history

Breeder of blight-resistant potatoes stands up for gardeners who grow blight-susceptible potatoes.
Hungry for better ag statistics? FAO hears you.
“Biofortification is an obstacle to food justice”. Just an opinion, obviously.
And not necessarily one shared by the USDA: Breeding better fruits and veggies, including vitamin-A enriched potatoes.
Women, gardens, community health … we’ve heard this all before. So why is it still news?
Diana Buja shares tips on how to catch flying ants, and other goodies, the better to savour their deliciousness.
A beginner’s guide to everything called pepper.
A new test for cow’s milk in mozzarella di bufala, can also separate the sheep from the goats. Can I get a pocket version?
The transition to agriculture in North America.

Reminiscing at ICRAF about the history of (some of) the intellectual underpinnings of land sharing.
The latest agrobiodiversity musings from Hyderabad.
More reminiscing, this time from a GCARD2 social reporter.
Dogs, the first domesticates?
India links up its biodiversity databases. Including NBPGR’s?
Iron-rich beans hit Rwanda. Rwanda reels from the impact. How long before someone thinks of dumping them into the ocean?
“There will be no nice wine from Sweden this year.” Oh, dear.
Documenting agricultural biodiversity. In Italian. Maybe Italy will now follow India (see above)?

Up to their knees in wasabi. And, loving it.
iPlant Collaborative’s Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) ver. 3.0 expands its coverage.
Marine bird e-Atlas goes live. Meah.
GFAR tweets about old videos. Must be a reason for it.
Podcast on using sweet potatoes in baby food. Might well come in useful more generally.
My friend Valerie and former employer SPC get a namecheck in story about world’s largest taro genebank.