Policy

Nibbles: Beef, Dairy, Resilience and vulnerability, Seed systems, Irony beans, Genebanks in the news, Catch a fire, Amazon, Spanish gardens, Conservation, Work exchange

What is the best beef in Europe?
When was the first yoghurt of the Neolithic?
How do you measure smallholder resilience? Or vulnerability, for that matter…
How does this Kenyan seed story differ from this Malian one?
How do you address iron deficiency in Rwanda?
What’s the value of a genebank?
There’s a downside to plant-derived smoke?
So what’s the latest paradigm shift on that ancient-people-in-the-Amazon thing?
How are the Spanish people coping with the crisis?
How come those transcribed podcasting, medal winning conservationists still don’t get it?
What are Ethiopians doing in Amazonia?

Rejoice, the new edition of the FAO/Bioversity Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors (MCPD) are now available on-line!
Pollinators good for pollination shock. No, kidding apart, this is Pollinator Week and we should take note.
Another step in building plant breeding capacity in West Africa.
How to get quinoa cake on the menu of posh Bolivian coffee shops.
Virtual tour of my old stomping ground at the Cambridge University Botanical Garden includes a chemical trail. Which alas does not in turn include the main chemical we used to consume there.

CGIAR pushes ITPGRFA into Rio +20 limelight. ITPGRFA unavailable for comment.
Recession or no recession, Samoan women’s group in Body Shop coconut oil deal.
Pre-Columbian Amazon not densely inhabited after all. Just wake me up when they sort this out.
Ok, where do I get my hands on some Moringa leaves?