Podcasts

Nibbles: Bovine flatulence, New bananas, Cyperus, Pepper history, Ancient rice, Indian Act, Indians act, CIFOR achievements, Pooch podcast, Milk, Buzz, Commons, Sorghum sociology, Water spinach meme, AGRF

The taxonomy of cow farts. Can’t improve on that title.
What the hell is Hawaiian Plantain, and why is it needed in Panama?
Ever eat a sedge?
Bet they could do with some pepper.
Ancient Japanese rice found. Let the DNA extraction begin.
Indian farmers can now claim royalties on traditional varieties. What could possibly go wrong?
How about paying them to preserve “traditional and fast disappearing millets“?
Video on CIFOR’s greatest successes. I think the greatest failures would be more instructive.
Self-consciously cool (but don’t let put you off) podcast on the domestication of the dog.
The evolution of human lactose persistence, however, is not all about calcium.
Today’s theory about honeybee deaths is sure to be discussed at today’s honeybee health summit.
Can participatory mapping save the commons? Probably not, but fun nevertheless.
Fun? How about the successful defence of a thesis on “The social structure of cultivated plants: the influence of exchanges, representations and practices on sorghum diversity in Mount Kenya’s people”.
Keep calm and eat kangkung. Don’t you love it when one meme eats another?
Say you want an African Green Revolution Forum … Well, you know, go to Maputo.

Oh, bloody hell, you mean there’s an International Farmer Innovation Day, and it was yesterday? I suppose agroecology is a form of farmer innovation? And here you can hear the very voices of innovative farmers.
Sometimes farmers don’t innovate enough.
And sometimes they need a helping hand from the media. Or ACIAR. Or WFP.
Sometimes, though, they just go it alone, ploughing a lonely furrow like Rhizowen Radix.
Kew seed bankers visit the Caribbean. Nice gig if you can get it. Any CWR?
Wonder if they’ve read CTA’s new dossier on seed systems. Start here.
The Jess & Jeremy Show goes on the road. All food security and nutrition, all the time.
Is this why Jess blogs?
I wonder if Jess would agree with Jo Robinson on wild foods. Probably.
Whatever, as long as it’s perennial!
CIAT gets its climate-smart cacao work in Ghana into The Economist.
Well of course you need sugar in your cocoa.

“Always rotating, regardless of prices, is close to optimal.” Not what you think. Or maybe it is. Robust economic reasons for not planting the same annual crop two years running.
Got any data about nutrition and biodiversity? FAO wants them.
Fuller and McCouch on the origins of rice. Audio goodness only.
The first of many video updates on #COP19. Gonna be a long couple of weeks.
And no, I don’t think a UN Nutrition and Sustainability Seminar will help much in that respect, but you can follow that too at #sustfoodsystems. Or is it #sustdiets?

ICRAF are having their Science Week. Follow it on Twitter. And let us know if you’re there and want to write about anything agrobiodiversity related that comes up.
Plant Genome Evolution 2013 has been and gone, alas, but Chris Pires has storified the whole thing, pretty much. Lots of crops in there. But it’s disappeared now, of course.
Bioversity and FAO redesign their websites. Tell them what you think.
Diane Ragone talks breadfruit. With video goodness.
Aussie researcher talks about landing Gates grant to improve African livestock. Hopefully some conservation in there somewhere.
Decentralizing data: to empower communities; and to empower geeks.
Data, you said? Here’s data on why Kansas needs wheat breeders.
The world’s chief agriculture scientists want to share genetic resources. Good of them.
Europe used to have more melons.
Enough with the Peruvian superfoods meme, please.
I may have said this before, but it’s still valid: I need a drink.

CIFOR scientist talks about the much-vaunted landscape approach.
The repeated evolution of lemony flavour.
Nice infographic of breadfruit diversity in the Pacific.
Better infographic of chili pepper diversity in Mexico. Both are on Facebook. Hope you guys can see them.
FAO’s Eve Crowley is didactic and inspirational by turns about women, co-operatives and rural development.
Hardin vs Ostrom. Walk-over.
How much does production have to increase, really? Lobell deals the cards.
What are the effects of input subsidies on maize prices in Malawi and Zambia? Small to none.
Plant database to charge for access? Never a good idea.
Ok, here’s a first, a beer I don’t altogether feel like tasting.
Last days of the soybean homecoming show in Hong Kong. Anybody out there seen it?
Video on the intricacies of Kew. Not as long as you’d think.
Weevils in sweet pea jar pinpoint season of Santorini eruption. Has anyone tried to recover DNA from the seeds?
Experts for ensuring quality fish seeds to enhance production. Say what?
How should we mark the extinction of the passenger pigeon next year?