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Nibbles: Trees, AGRA, pig meat, culinodiversity, fund raising, seed, data

Let them eat leaves: farmers to plant trees in Kenya.
For the archives: Rockefeller Foundation’s original blueprint for A Green Revolution for Africa (PDF).
Keeping it real, computers and genetics monitor Iberian ham.
Eat diversity to conserve it.
Three-headed coconut tree for sale. To you, one million bucks.
Video on FAO seed project in Afghanistan. I just hope somebody’s taking care of the landraces.
Scientists exhorted to geo-reference. IRRI GIS staff unavailable for comment.

Bumper wheat crop forecast. Norman Borlaug comments: “looming catastrophe”.
Sunflower may have been domesticated independently in Mexico, as well as in the Eastern US.
Neglected and novel? A cautionary tale about The Miracle Berry from the BBC. Via.
Hold the phone! World Bank says countries are not going to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Via.

More on The Horse, the Wheel and Language. Giddyup!
More species means more productivity. At least in the Patagonian steppe.
Bogota urban agriculture to embrace native species.
Ohio farmers to rear Amazonian fish. Amazonian farmers unavailable for comment.
I wonder if Turkish pigs are genetically interesting.
Ifugau rice terraces being abandonedÂ by “world’s best rice farmers.” Ok that’s weird, because they’re also supposed to solve the rice shortage problem. Gosh, this is probably worth more than just a nibble.

Boffins say wild barley “a treasure trove.” Lay up not your treasures on Earth.
Boffins say Florida mangoes “unique.” As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Boffins say rice genetic diversity being eroded in the Philippines. They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.