- Climate change good for wild boar. And bores?
- Climate change good for English wine makers.
- Climate change bad for Africa. Already.
- Climate change bad for Nenets and their reindeer. Already.
- Organic farming will solve climate change.
- Ecotourism will solve climate change.
- China going crazy for garlic. Because of climate change? Nope, swine flu.
Silk Road on show in New York
The American Museum of Natural History has an exhibition on the Silk Road. It looks pretty good, and there even seems to be a bit on agrobiodiversity. I mean apart from the obvious, the silkworm and the camel. In particular, you get a look at the night markets of Turfan.
Surprisingly, visitors to markets along the ancient Silk Road—long before overnight shipping and refrigeration—could also choose from an array of foreign delicacies. As travelers moved along trade routes, they introduced their own ingredients and recipes to foreign lands. Over time, such exotic edibles became familiar features on local menus.
Check the video at the 2:18 mark. Not bad, I guess. But was it too much to ask for — having come so far — to include something about the role of this trade route in the spread of at least crops like the apple and wheat?
Carver Day in St Louis
It’s Carver Day at the Missouri Botanical Garden today. Sounds like fun. We’ve blogged about George Washington Carver and his pioneering interest in, and work with, agrobiodiversity before. He was a Missouri native, which I think is his only connection to MoBo, but that’s ok, any excuse is good to celebrate such a man. If you go, let us know.
Get ready for National Apple Day
Wednesday 21st October is National Apple Day in Britain. We are reminded of the auspicious occasion by The Ecologist and the Eden Project. What will Kew do?
Nibbles: Markets, Easter Island, Honey, Coffee, Cowpea, Morocco, Urban Ag, Kenya
- 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