Podcasts

Nibbles: Transformation, Livestock pod, Coffee pod, GHUs, Viz double, Yaupon, Wild foods, GRIN, Korean vegetables, Oz Indigenous bakers, Warwick vegetables

IAASTD ten years on. Not many people hurt.
Interesting new ILRI podcast hits the airwaves.
And here’s another new podcast: A History of Coffee. So far so pretty good.
Meanwhile, CIP rounds up recent webinars on germplasm health.
Fun visualizations on the seasonality of food.
Speaking of visualizations, RAWGraphs is a pretty neat tool.
North America used to have a native caffeinated beverage, the attractively named Ilex vomitoria.
Maybe South Africa’s local wild foods have a better chance.
Using USDA’s genebank database, GRIN.
Not sure if this Korean-American farmer does (access USDA’s genebank database, do keep up), but probably.
I wonder if any of these Australian wild foods will find their way into a genebank, just in case.
Genebanks like the UK veggie one at Warwick.

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.