- Seed hunter hunts cash. Australians can watch on 21 October.
- Is selling milk retail really diversification? Alex thinks so.
- In vino variety. Jeremy sez: “Theft (of headline) is flattery”.
- Pollinator presence plummets. Luigi also sez: “Theft (of headline) is flattery”.
- Cacao Germplasm Evaluation and Characterization Project. Nuff said.
- Ribes redux.
Nibbles: Amazon, Aquaculture, Bees, ICTs, Food prices, Dates, Cats, Taro
- Not so pristine after all.
- Farming the sturgeon.
- Colony Collapse Disorder 101. And how floral scents affect pollinator behaviour.
- Presentation on how mobile phones are changing rural livelihoods.
- Urban food gardens to combat high food prices in South Africa. And a different approach in Madagascar.
- Getting dates in Saudi Arabia is becoming difficult.
- “Winged” cats.
- The importance of taro in Hawaii. Thanks, Tevita.
Nibbles for the road: Baobab, Breeding, Gardening, Earthworms, Taro, Pollinators, Llama, Trees, Chili peppers
- More on how the baobab is coming to Europe.
- Review of breeding for nutritionally improved crops.
- Book on the origins of British gardening.
- Earthworms “modulate the competition between grasses and legumes.”
- ACIAR publishes book on taro pests in the Pacific.
- UNEP launches global pollinator conservation initiative.
- Unusual use for livestock fetuses.
- “And she grows more than 100 types of trees…“
- “Along the equator, without access to refrigeration, you could be dead pretty quickly unless you can find a way to protect yourself against the microbes you ingest every day.”
Nibbles: Economics, Agricultural origins, Slow Food, Pollinators, India
- An economist designs a sustainable agricultural system. Good news: it includes genebanks, if only as an additional thought.
- Peruvian rock art marks transition between hunting/gathering and agriculture.
- A food garden on the White House lawn? Via Slow Food Nation, get your tickets quick. And follow the blog. Thanks, Colinski, and have a good time there.
- “The total economic value of pollination worldwide amounted to €153 billion, which represented 9.5% of the value of the world agricultural production used for human food in 2005.”
- “I want the farmers to get the message that what we are doing, what they will be doing when they embrace natural farming, is revolutionary.”
Honey trifecta
There are three stories on honey in the latest NWFP digest. Did you know there are more than 300 distinct types of honey produced in the US? But I bet none tastes like the stuff collected by the Baka Pygmies. Or like the type that Solomon Island farmers are being encouraged to produce more of. I can vouch for this last one, it’s pretty good.