Nutrition

Nibbles: Chickens!, Nigerian R&D, Obesity, Neglected species,

Henderson’s Handy-Dandy Chicken Chart. Parochial: only one naked.
“Local farmers hold key to ending hunger“. Q&A with Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Nigeria.
Selected papers on Food & Obesity, free from the Journal of Public Health Policy.
UK academic promotes underutilised species shock.

Mulberries preserved twice, in the Pamirs and with a Slow Food Presidium. Kudos to Bioversity.
Gardeners eat more veggies, but not fruit. Press release and paper.
Banana peels concentrate heavy metals. Article and paper.
Where tropical timber goes. GOOD Infographic.

Know your yak breeds. h/t Brendan
Neolithic linen.
You are what your mother ate. Its all down to the Hnf4a gene.
Naked chick necks? It’s all down to an interaction between the BM12 gene and retinoic acid receptors.
Laos swallows the lets-eat-insects bait. Dutch follow suit?
The future of pastoralism. It has one? Is this the alternative?
Citizen science in national parks.

“Organic management practices appear to result in elevated levels of grain micronutrient concentration.” By no means the whole story.
Tom too takes The Economist to task.
Afghanistan’s opium growers. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Nixtamalization for the rest of us. More than you could ever want to know. Rye tortillas!
Chocolate began with leftover beer? Seems unlikely.
Take the fight to the monster’s lair. Swap seeds in Brussels. h/t Patrick.
Dogs or dholes? Yeah I didn’t know what they were either.
There was a workshop on “Seed System and Climate Change” in Bhutan a month ago.
Big biofuel project in Tanzania bites the dust. And the land they “leased,” what happened to that?
Ancient grinding holes. Might mesquite be another edible never domesticated?