- “Food is the most cost-effective intervention.”
- Peru promotes potatoes.
- The Importance of Biodiversity to Medicine. Anyone got access? Any mention of nutrition?
- EU Says bees should rest. Problem solved.
- Extreme beer. All problems solved.
- Eat local? I don’t think so.
- Itchy Italian gourmands gutted over climate change-caused truffle troubles.
- Mulberry trees pay the price for immodesty.
- While fig trees planted by Jesuits survive. It’s a funny old world. Fruit tree trifecta in play.
- And it comes in! Today’s saving-the-frigging-English-apple story comes to you from The Guardian. Enough already, the English apple is going to be fine.
Nibbles: Sorghum, Baobab, Coffee squared
- Mosutlhwane? Rice from sorghum. Botswana goes for self-sufficiency.
- Sustainable baobab.
- Growing caffeine-free coffee.
- And, coincidentally, a blog post on wild coffees from Madagascar.
Nibbles: Coffea, Tequila, Livestock wild relatives, Rice wine, Vit. D, Statistics
- Wild coffee studied; report from Madagascar.
- Adding value to tequila. Lots of value.
- Vietnamese farmers go wild.
- Vietnamese farmers get drunk.
- All about Vitamin D.
- “…cranberries are the neglected stepchild of the season.”
- What does that make the turkey?
- Gates Foundation moves into space. Via.
Nibbles: US, Wheat, Drylands, Cacao, Fast food, Cheese, Dogs
- USDA goes to the closets.
- Brazil to teach Tunisia how to grow wheat. Exchange of germplasm involved.
- ICRISAT DG makes a pitch for dryland farmers. And aquaculturists?
- A plan for cacao sustainability in Africa agreed. Germplasm not involved?
- Americans eat a lot of corn. A lot.
- The romance of cheese-making. Romance? These people should get out more.
- Peru offers Obamas a “cute” puppy. I still prefer the Mexican version.
Ah, the yoof of today!
On one side of the internet, a World Bank livestock specialist asks about projects dealing with young people in agriculture and rural development. And way over on the other side, an expert on security and geopolitical issues discusses the wider ramifications of a “story about wind turbines on school ground that provide most of school’s need but also a lesson on the local generation of energy to impressionable kids.” School gardens, anyone?
A key advantage for emerging economies: young demographic profiles. That means the turnover on conventional wisdom is relatively fast—as in, a good 15 years later and the bulk of the population can’t remember the old and bad ways and think only in terms of the new paradigm.
Sure, but as another article out at the weekend showed, there’s a long way to go.