Pollinators

Nibbles: Cancun, Maya in Haiti, Indian Food, Pavlovsk, Currywurst, Banana biofuel, Book, Radio, Beer, East African cattle breed, Climate change and altitude, Amazon, Lycopersicon, Pollinator plants, Phenology, Economics

Good COP, bad COP? Registration opens for Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010, at COP16, the Climate Change COP.
Maya in Haiti? Jamaica? Institute expands its reach.
India considering making the right to food an actual right to food. But how?
Science magazine shares the Pav-Love-sk.
“From 28 August to 3 October, the Curried Sausage Field is open to visitors on Diedersdorfer Weg in Berlin. This is BfR’s second didactic plant labyrinth.” Don’t even ask.
Bananas for juice. Power type juice.
New book explores history, future of international agriculture. Anyone reading it?
Hear Bioversity’s DG warn Pacific islanders of fast food health risks.
“Without the yeast, beer would be nonalcoholic and noncarbonated.” Yeah, but then what would be the point? The Ecological Society of America considers beer — and issues a delightful apology.
Video on saving Ankole cattle.
Amphibians find it hard to move higher in response to climate change. And plants? Crops? Wild relatives? Has anyone done the modelling?
The pristine Amazon. Not.
Wild tomatoes and drought.
The best plants for pollinators.
When are different crops sown around the world? Gotta love meta-analyses.
Apparently conservationists interested in the economics of it all must abandon the “straightjacket of the Walrasian core.” So now there’s no excuse.

17 years of data confirm fears of bee decline.
Slideshow on Egyptian Deserts Genebank; prepare to be astounded.
Slideshow on US National Plant Germplasm System; prepare to be even more astounded.
Livestock and climate change, a background paper from ILRI.
“Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest.” The good news: it’s corporate, so can be pressured to stop.

Genejockeys say they have sorted that global food supply problem everybody’s been so antsy about lately. No, wait, maybe it’s this.
China has 23 indigenous horse breeds. At least.
Latest crop to get the orange treatment is soybean.
Diverse ways of doing agriculture: Could CropMobs go global?
Choose foods, not nutrients. Heck, yes.
Globally warmed beetles threatening your coffee crops? Bring on biodiversity!
Brit breeds bees for better grooming.
How to get the most out of your wild blueberries. Maybe we should tell Medvedev?
Emerging Crops is a new NUS project, and it has a website.

Bioversity and NBPGR India offering course on cryopreservation.
Scientia Pro Publica #35 blog carnival is up, with bees factchecked up the wazoo.
Big long post helps understand corn domestication dates in Chaco Canyon.