Policy

Nibbles: Cancun, Wine, Zambia, Bees

Just in time. Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 now has RSS.
“It wasn’t debilitated in any way.” World’s oldest beer and wine drunk.
Zambian farmers buy seeds, fertilisers and herbicides by mobile phone. What could possibly go wrong?
Red bees! A little too much biodiversity to blame? h/t Tasting Cultures

Possibly interesting article on Nagoya ABS Protocol, but I’ll never know.
Pomegranate juice fraud?
Fort Collins genebank in the (local) news.
Sudan to become self-sufficient in wheat. Sorghum also involved.
James of the Giant Corn gives idiot pontificator a well-deserved drubbing.
Brachiaria forage not a “magic bullet” shock.
Chile moans about lack of benefit sharing, but fails to do anything about it.
DG of Bioversity beats agricultural biodiversity for nutrition and health drum shock.
Carol Deppe has a web site. (she’s the Backyard Vegetable Breeder person.)

Swede objects to relaxed seed laws because it promotes profit, not biodiversty. Huh?
Scidev.net optimistic about Nagoya.
Those 100 questions answered in full for global agriculture, from climate change to consumer choice. We’ll be back on this one.

Americans advised to eat diversity, by USDA and others. Wot, no fortified staples?
Webcast on Food Systems and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa. h/t The Agrobiodiversity Grapevine.
French vegetables disappearing? Je ne le crois pas.
The Scientist Gardener tackles declining yields of miracle rice, but what has he done to his colour scheme?

Sustainable alternative to opium. Still waiting for my man.
“Crop Wild Relative community calls for united global efforts“. Good to know.
Small-scale coconut growers to benefit from Kasaragod Declaration?
Australian farmer doubles number of species, doubles yield shock.
Plant health clinics take expertise where it is needed most. Now for the mobile edition …
Crowdsourcing improvements to a portal to genetic information. Now there’s an idea.