Threats

Nibbles: Edible terricolous insects, Interdependence, Spanish livestock, Milk for pastoralists, African Crop Science Society, Ethiopia CBD report, New Agriculturalist, Geo-referencing

Cicadas are good, and good for you.
Genes from “foreign” wheat played significant role in improving Chinese wheat.
Spain publishes plan for the conservation, improvement and promotion of livestock breeds.
Milk Matters. To Somali children in Ethiopia, in this case.
Winners of ACSS awards for 2009 announced.
“Conserving Ethiopia’s biodiversity far from adequate.” Or so says Ethiopia’s report to CBD. Some agrobiodiversity included.
New Agriculturalist is out. Rejoice.
Andy Jarvis on the value of geo-referencing.

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