Podcasts

Nibbles: Biofortification, Sweetpotato, Rare breeds podcast, Zooming goats, Farmers market, Three Sisters, Amazon, Grapevine resistance, Zostera

Pretty much the last thing biofortified crops do is empower farmers to be food system change agents. But they’re still a pretty good idea.
Same for the sweet potato in the Caribbean. On both counts.
Jeremy’s latest on saving rare livestock breeds. Now, that would change the food system a bit.
But would those rare breeds work on Zoom?
Maybe this farmers market in Nairobi could stir things up a bit.
Learning from Native American farming practices is always a good idea.
Rethinking the Amazon development model could do with some of that too.
Grapevine wild relatives are pretty empowering too.
And, for at least one chef, so is eelgrass.

Tea, anyone? Jeremy delves into how Brits made tea, and vice versa.
More tea? Lawrie Taylor looks at the dark side.
Want to know what the soil is like on African tea farms? Try iSDAsoil. Let the mashing up with crop accession locality data begin…
Want to know what happened to those other seeds that came out of China?

Podcast on Vavilov’s genebank.
What Vavilov’s genebank is up to at the moment with its melons.
Meanwhile, UK sets up a Crop Microbiome Cryobank.
How to breed apples.
Here’s how you can check if all of the above are free of the taint of white supremacy.

Crop-Climate Suitability Mapping. Yes, another one. I feel a proper post coming on.
Tweet from Sean Hoban on ex situ sampling strategies. I feel a proper post coming on.
Proper blog post explains a really complicated rice domestication paper in about a page.
Proper podcast from Jeremy on, among other things, why coffee leaf rust is not why the Brits drink tea.
Not sure if this is blog post, but it’s a really good example of weaving together (see what I did there?) different pieces of work on the wool dogs (sic) of the Pacific NW.

BBC Food Programme on wheat, with the authors of Amber Waves and The Man Who Tried to Feed the World.
Tides of History podcast on livestock domestication with Prof. Greger Larson. He thinks “domestication” should be used as a descriptor of a state rather than a label for a process. He also thinks that animals became “domesticated” basically only once (except for pigs).
A citrus fruit you never heard of is crucial to Japanese cuisine.
Bringing back heirloom rice and other traditional crops in the Sea Islands. And more.
Building back better: from 200 food systems recommendation to 41 no regrets actions. And why we need them NOW!
A Peruvian peasant organization goes digital.
Huge book on strengthening seed systems in South Asia.
Nice CGN video on seed processing in genebanks.
How can businesses value biodiversity? Here come the guidelines.