Threats

Nibbles: Garlic, Ruminants cubed, Rice, Seed saving

Garlic diversity evaluated. Vampire-blocking not assessed.
The movements of Ice Age bison in Canada and Bronze Age cattle in Britain deconstructed.
The plight of the banteng.
Natural NERICA? Well, maybe, but at what frequencies?
Seed Savers Handbook online. Jeremy conflicted.

US scientists put ash diversity in the deep freeze, for when they’ve solved the emerald ash borer menace.
Millions fed: proven successes in agricultural development. A talk on 12 November in Washington DC. Jeremy sez: “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail”.
War! Huuh! What is it good for? Hybrid rice! Huh?

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus spread by human activity related to agriculture.
UN food security expert says “75 per cent of agro-biodiversity has been lost”. Naughty.
UC Davis to lead big USAID-funded international horticulture development project.
Botany Photo of the Day: Vitis labrusca.
“The connection between a convolvulaceous tuber bearing crop, a folk-blues artist and a cetacean…”
IWMI maps drought. Globally.

I love pictures of agrobiodiversity in markets.
Humans did for trees on Rapa Nui after all, not rats.
Like refining chocolate, extracting honey is a fragrant, messy process. Bring it on.
Fair Trade coffee unfair to farmers, CIAT says.
Another day, another genome. This time it’s cowpea.
2000 year old food forest in Morocco. Honestly! And guess what? It’s not thriving.
Another video (long). Education of an Urban Farmer.
Education of an ex-pastoralist farmer, Karamojong, Kenya