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Nibbles: High science, Methane-friendly rice, Gender, Indian priestesses, Banana extinction, Inka legacy, Diversity in ag, Yerba genome, Cucumber chains, Tomato relative, Agrobiodiversity in art

High-level agricultural scientists thinks high agricultural science will feed the world. Oh, and smart policies.
This new rice would qualify, I suspect.
Participatory varietal selection manual revised to take women into account. Someone mention high science?
No such manual needed in India, it seems.
The banana-is-doomed story sure has legs. Or hands.
What did the Inkas ever do for us?
Is agriculture diverse enough? That is the question.
Yerba mate gets sequenced. Because it can be.
Following an Indian cucumber down the value chain.
Thank your lucky stars for this weedy-looking tomato wild relative.
“We’re interested in the color, shape and sizes of the vegetables from 400 years ago, compared to modern cultivars of the same vegetables: the deep sutures on cantaloupe in Italian art of the Renaissance or the lack of pigmentation in pictures of watermelon compared to today.”
Quite a bit of agrobiodiversity featured in Day of Archaeology. Nice idea.

Making a cup of “coffee.” Well, it is for Dunkin’ Donuts.
Pigs: yum or yuch?
FAO wants to know about how to teach healthy living in schools.
You’d have thought it difficult to have a healthy life in the Arctic, but people manage it.
Our rubber supply is in jeopardy. The raw material, not the product.
Ethiopian genebank in the development news.

Video of Robin Allaby on that find of underwater Mesolithic wheat DNA off England. Well, that’s just the intro. Most of the rest is about the movement of flax north through Europe.
There’s a great Facebook group on the taros (or kalos) of Hawaii.
Weird coloured potato could be a hit Down Under.
New yams for Guadeloupe. No news on their colour.
Nice scenery and wine. Sign me up.
Also on the UNESCO heritage list: China’s rice terraces.
The Russian rye is coming! The Russian rye is coming!
Learn about the Oregon Wolfe Barley population. Thanks to Trust Me, I Am a Seed “Scientist”, another Facebook group worth following.

Nice idea.

African Seed Access Index comes out for Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
New way to fund crop diversity conservation to be unveiled at FFD3 in Addis Ababa next week.
“When you looked for ‘Ethiopia’ in a dictionary, it would also always mention ‘famine’. Now that time is over.”
Vote for me!!!! I so want to win this damn Bioversity photo competition.
Yes, you can have your long-grain rice and yield too!
Everybody loves floating gardens.
Mapping chocolate.
“Why Is there Wine on the UNESCO World Heritage List?” Why the hell not?
Lost grapes in Shangri-La. UNESCO beckons?
Flatbreads rule.