Podcasts

Nibbles: NHM, CGN, NordGen, ICRISAT, Chai, Cacao, Coffee, Amazon, Indian aromatics, Spying, Talking cattle

Dr Sandy Knapp on botanical monographs. Solanum, of course.
Dr Joukje Buiteveld on fruit field genebanks in the Netherlands.
NordGen adopts GRIN-Global.
Hybrid pigeonpa in the Indian news.
All the tea in India. And Ireland?
The rise of craft chocolate.
And here’s the beverage trifecta: coffee in Ethiopia.
Seed collecting in Brazil for reforestation.
NBPGR does medicinals.
You wanna be a “germplasm acquisition coordinator“? I bet you do. But watch out…
Podcast on cattle domestication. Dr Hans Lenstra from Utrecht University in the hot seat.

Growing coffee at 2400m could be the new normal.
A history of coffee rust, thanks to Prof. Stuart McCook and WCR. Not much of a problem at 2400m.
Oh and here’s a podcast on the history of coffee, an interview with the author of Coffeeland: “drinking coffee is a symptom of working for other people.” Lot of that lately: In Our Time, Eat This Podcast.
Breeding grapes the smart way. That just seems to mean have access to a germplasm collection and choose your parents carefully.
Which is what Borlaug did. Ok, plus he was lucky.
Hunan gets a genebank. Prosperity ensues.
Could there have been a Green Revolution in Westeros? With that genetics?

The Stairway to Heaven of barley breeding for whiskey involves thinking about taste a bit more.
Taste comes into maize breeding too.
Jeremy talks taste with Margot Finn. Oh and there’s his latest newsletter.
Farmerama podcasts on cereals in small-scale farming in the UK and beyond.
Nothing small-scale about ancient farming in the Nile Valley.
Make ancient Roman bread during lockdown. Then compare and contrast with the Egyptian kind?
What did the Romans ever do for the rural economy of Britain anyway?
Course on communicating the value of biodiversity. Wasn’t all the above enough?

The mango whisperer.
Conserving the Khola chilli.
Going back to Fiji for this fundraising meeting next week. Follow along on Twitter.
Are we on the Titanic?
Vintage cookbooks galore. If we’re going down, might as well go down in style.
Jeremy’s podcast on cereal cultivation’s 3-step program for spreading around Eurasia.