- Let the berry wars commence. Thanks to Hannes for taking sides.
- Women active in African agriculture. Well I never.
- Iraq’s marshes in trouble again. This time it’s drought.
- Gorosoe in Korea: “…it soothes my stomach after a hangover.”
- Vavilov set right on sorghum in China.
- Protected pine forest threatened by logging in Russia. Nuts!
- 1st International IFOAM Conference on Organic Animal and Plant Breeding.
- International Banana Symposium: Global Perspectives on Asian Challenges.
Nibbles: Rituals, Pig, Diseases, Beer, Hog, Fair
- The Green Revolution has messed with rice rituals in Bengal.
- National Pig Day is coming up. Bacon for breakfast at last!
- The Star Trek tricorder finally arrives, though only for plant diseases so far.
- Organic beer can be good. You had me at beer.
- Speakin’ of bacon, make mine endangered.
- Biodiversity Fair held in Bhutan “to recognise the farmers’ contribution …; create awareness … and encourage farmers …; promote in situ conservation and … ex situ (gene bank) conservation; and provide … opportunities to exchange seeds.”
Speaking of tubers …
“They’re the Ingrid Bergman to oca’s Marilyn Monroe.”
Rhizowen, the freshest new (old) voice in weird and wonderful veg is at it again with another go at Crap Crops of the Incas. This time the object of his adoration is ulluco. I wonder how they’d do on Vanuatu?
Nibbles: Kenya vegetables, Diet diversity, Armyworms
- Slumdog Veggiegrower. Via.
- Australians contend diets need to be diverse. Another shrimp placed on barbie.
- Great summary of the Liberian “armyworm” situation from CABI. And they say taxonomy is boring.
Nibbles: Banana, Pigs, Bees, Wiki, Cat, Award, Genomics
- Banana going extinct. Again.
- Pigs are good weedkillers.
- Bee bailout in the UK.
- India has an agricultural Wikipedia. With a blog. Via.
- Do you know this cat?
- SEED 2009 Awards for entrepreneurs. Found at the LEISA blog.
- TED talk on building better wines through genomics.