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Nibbles: Forest management, Sahelian trees, Biofortification blogging

Combining traditional and scientific knowledge on an invasive species to manage forests.
Variation in dryland trees: Balanites and Adansonia.
Roundup of biofortification bloggers.

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.

Resistance to coffee rust found in India, though not clear where. Now for the hard part …
Arguments for Payments for Ecosystem Services. Matt points to a conference in 2013, but where are the actual payments?
“Rather than decrying development in India and China we should be strenuously objecting to agrofuels.” So lets distinguish agrofuels from biofuels.
Today’s new genebank is in Israel. Bet there are some crop wild relatives in there.
Those Mayans were boffo agricultural engineers.
“Alcohol-free” cannabis. I don’t understand any of this.
A gene associated with flowering time has alleles associated with a rainfall gradient. h/t Jacob. Cool.

ILRI slideshow on adapting South Asian livestock systems to climate change. And some background.
Latest on Nepal’s new genebank.
Salicornia 101.
GENERA: a database of published, peer-reviewed scientific papers that are related to the risks and safety of genetic engineering in agriculture. Courtesy of Biofortified.

Sierra Leone gets back to (rural) work.
Rachel Laudan not keen on UNESCO protecting culinary traditions.
Value chains are hard.
Dual-purpose sorghum in the CGIAR spotlight.
Andy does cassava. Looks like he may need to buy a house in Bellagio.
Latest Animal Genetic Resources is out. In other news, there’s an international journal called Animal Genetic Resources.