Nutrition

Nibbles: Communications, Economics, Nutrition, Conservation

What words should we use? “[B]est management practices” or “more casual words like local, family-owned and farmer”.
Words like “farming”. How to make a living “farming” without leaving your armchair. Via.
Hungry work, that. If only I had a slice of acorn-finished pork to finish.
Someone else who would like that: where in the world is Luigi Guarino? Wherever “it is imperative that genetic diversity is maintained for posterity.”

See Gardens of the Pharaohs at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities from 27 April to 2 September.
Iron-deficiency anaemia? Engineer a banana!
Eldis shares details of a workshop on access and benefit sharing under the International Seed Treaty.
A hugely successful Seedy Sunday in Amsterdam. Call the Seed Police!
The BBC remembers Forgotten Foods. No, not NUS.

Today’s maybe we’ll get some coverage if we link it to hunger and famine press release. Petunia gene.
Today’s there’s a database for that announcement. FAO’s Horticulture Cultivars Performance Database.
Today’s impact of climate change on X report. Forest resources in the Caribbean.
Today’s debunking a crappy piece of nutrition research killjoys. Experts respond to nutrition claims.
The Archaeobotanist has been going great guns; new book on domestication and millet domestication. We’ll pass on the museum post till we can firm it up.
IFPRI says let two flowers bloom. Here’s the super-groovy new policy kid on the block for non-policy wonks.
I’ll see your evil speculators and raise you a rising secular trend in food prices. (See what I did there?)
With a heavy clunk, The Economist gave Svalbard’s Doomsday Seed Vault a fine 4th birthday present.

Mo’ women power, mo’ better food security. ILRI leads the pack of CGIAR centres, but there’s loads of stuff elsewhere.
British diplomat ponders the value of biodiversity.
Less than a human life, at least in some parts of Brazil.
Speaking (cynically) of values and prices, informed speculation on speculators is at hand.
Berries make you brainy; so I guess that reporter hasn’t eaten any lately.
You too can determine future-oriented research pathways for food security in East Africa, and no need to pig out on berries.
A kinda sorta interactive map of European agricultural biodiversity. Is it sustainable?
That map may need a special section for Florence, if one person’s photographic Florentine feast is anything to go by.
If there were a similar map for the US, it would probably include this kind of thing from the Cherokee.

An anthropologists speaks about landscapes.
ILRI says: “Landscapes, I’ve got your landscapes right here.”
India makes its play for African agricultural landscapes. I hope there will be scorecards and women. And access to Indian genebank holdings…
Will there be fish though?
And will India be pushing its mutation-bred varieties in Africa? Not that there’s anything wrong with them.
Or using climate information?
Or mining technology for that matter.
Surely there will be dual-purpose groundnuts.
Doesn’t India have a satellite?
~~Meanwhile, CIMMYT is making its own African play. Maybe some of the stuff it is doing there could be useful in India too?~~ Two dead links
~~Africa could teach India some other stuff too.~~ Dead link.
Pretty sure this nearly-extinct-onion-rescued story is totally irrelevant to both India and Africa.
Unlike coffee research.
I don’t suppose I can interest anyone in a not very nice tasting, disease-prone but historical apple?
And speaking of historical connections… Well that was quite a journey.