- Anastasia reports on the Biofortification conference: 60-day cowpeas
- Big blog post on even bigger conference on molecular tools for improving vegetatively-propagated crops: banana, plantain and cassava.
- Rice technologists! You need to read this blog post by Prabhu Pingali.
- UK’s Royal Horticultural Society report says school gardens are “vital”.
Biofortification conference on the internet
Kebab and apple strudel
A speaker at the International Scientific Symposium Biodiversity and Sustainable Diets alerted me to the existence of the EuroFIR (European Food Information Resource) project.
EuroFIR aims to provide the first comprehensive pan-European food information resource, using state-of-the-art database linking, to allow effective management, updating, extending and comparability.
Sounds pretty dry, but the stuff on traditional and ethnic foods is actually rather fun.
Nutrition shindig on the internet
The International Scientific Symposium Biodiversity and Sustainable Diets: United Against Hunger, on until tomorrow at FAO in Rome, is streaming live. Mainly in English. Read a precis of yesterday’s session over at Bioversity.
Nibbles: Livestock system resilience, Nepal genebank, Salicornia, GMO risk
- ILRI slideshow on adapting South Asian livestock systems to climate change. And some background.
- Latest on Nepal’s new genebank.
- Salicornia 101.
- GENERA: a database of published, peer-reviewed scientific papers that are related to the risks and safety of genetic engineering in agriculture. Courtesy of Biofortified.