- Buckwheat yields boosted by diversity in nearby forests.
- Date (press) with the past, in Qatar.
- Sustainable Intensification: Increasing Productivity in African Food and Agricultural Systems. A bit steep at GBP65 for 30 papers; we’ll be reading and sharing what we find.
- Apples, endangered? Well, yes.
- What’s so good about geographical indications anyway?
Nibbles: Lingonberries, Genebank Standards, Genebank, Seed Systems, Chinese drought, Cuba, Mexican bees
- Lingonberries power a trip from moose to mousse, and mush.
- FAO has a draft of updated genebank standards!
- Climate change person visits ICRISAT genebank, is impressed.
- Access to improved seed lauded.
- Yo! Price spike watchers! The Chinese drought thing is complex. Pay yer money. Take yer choice.
- Our friends at DAPA highlight their friends in Cuba: “peasant farmers have been able to boost food production via environmentally friendly methods”.
- Protecting native bee populations in Mexico.
Bats going bananas
Many of our most important foods come from bat-dependent plants. These include bananas, plantain, breadfruit, peaches, mangos, dates, figs, cashews and many more.
Bananas? Bananas? Yes, bananas. Well, kinda.
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
Nibbles: Buckwheat, Korea, Zimbabwean beer, Jeopardy
- Forest biodiversity boosts buckwheat harvest.
- Urban agriculture in Korea. Could it be prettier?
- Richer Zimbabwean drinkers abandon sorghum beer. Because it tastes poor, or because it feels poor?
- Biodiversity on TV. Read this, watch the video, and weep.