- Stilton cheese from Stilton village? Illegal. h/t CAS-IP
- Is Indian agriculture heading for disaster?
- “If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn’t mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in the trash, as it is worthless“. Riiiiiight.
- Banana genome to be discussed.
- Uganda’s National Genebank online.
- GM crops to free third-world women from the drudgery of weeding! h/t reviews The Fruit Hunters (a book).
Nibbles: Climate Change, Blogs, 1492, Grass, Beers
- Head of Convention on Biological Diversity says nothing to Reuters about climate change and agriculture.
- Link farm lists Top 50 Botany Blogs. We reciprocate.
- “[M]ost of us are the beneficiaries of millennia of acclimatization“. Rachel disses the Columbian Exchange.
- “Men didn’t grind, let alone gentlemen.” Rachel disses Iberian explorers.
- Back40 has a beef with supermarket nonsense. There is grass-fed beef in America.
- The Naked Pint: beers gone wild
Visualizing Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry: 1996–2008
And another 1000:
Thank you Phil Howard, Michigan State University.
Where is agriculture
It was barely in evidence in the original text for the Copenhagen Climate change meeting, though there are hopeful signs that it may be creeping in. Now comes further evidence that the world at large, or at least the rich, well-fed world, basically doesn’t give a stuff about agriculture. 2010 is the official United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. And it must be important, because it has a couple of Facebook pages and a Facebook group.
You’re wondering, do either of those mention agriculture, even fleetingly? would I be here if they did?
Nibbles: Forests, Climate change, Campaign, Water chestnuts, Research, Fruit
- “Countries can clear massive amounts of forest and still claim that deforestation had not occurred“. Wha?
- Biodiverse agriculture to meet climate challenge. Really?
- Diversity for Life campaign launches, but Official Site links to wrong Offical Site. This is where it should go.
- Water chestnuts. Fascinating.
- No sign of agricultural biodiversity in agricultural research masterplan.
- Vital Christmas supplies of Crataegus mexicana — aka Tejocote — no longer illegal in the US. h/t Rachel.