- Hoary zombie gender myths bite the dust. Wish the same could be said of agrobiodiversity myths…
- The first cabbage, according to the ancient Greeks. A myth we can all get behind.
- WWF maps deforestation hotspots. Like the whole of Sumatra.
- Profits not the (only) point of urban farming.
- Maintaining food culture by gardening in a Native American community. See what I mean?
- After citrus greening, now comes laurel wilt. Poor Florida.
- Biodiversity conservation through tourism in Latin America. Including agrobiodiversity?
- The trees and shrubs of mopane woodlands, illustrated.
- European biofuels hit the buffers.
Nibbles: Long live genebanks, ART in Ireland, Peruvian cacao, Cacao & CC, Canadian aid & wheat, Coffee trials, Organic redux, American garden survey, Cranberry breeding, Bean breeding, Expo Milano 2015, Olive disease, Insect meal, Save cider, Garum, Asian PGR network, Fig vid, McCouch, Pastoralist Knowledge Hub
- Sexing up genebanks.
- Inventive wheat drought phenotyping. Want more?
- The Irish try out other Andean crops. Because the first one worked out so well.
- Peruvian cocoa goes up-market. Others might not get the chance.
- Latest batch of IDRC food security projects: African veggies, chickpeas, lentils… Meanwhile, back home in Canada…
- Some major coffee producers are probably in trouble. Will the International Multi-location Variety Trials help at all?
- Crop genomic data boffins say crop genomic data should be free. DivSeek unavailable for comment.
- The latest from Rodale on why organic is better. Well, it certainly affects microbial diversity.
- Smithsonian helps to preserve the Great American Garden through citizen science.
- Blimey, it takes 15 years to release a cranberry cultivar. That’s nothing, Kenyan canning bean breeders say.
- Expo Milano 2015 is coming, and Bioversity will be there in force.
- The olive is under threat. Always something.
- If you don’t want to eat insects, you can always feed them to your livestock.
- There’s a campaign to save small cider producers in the UK. which we can all get behind, I’m sure.
- Make your own garum. If you must.
- Asian countries to launch regional PGR network. What, again?
- An ode to figs.
- Gotta love
weedweeds. - FAO gives pastoralists a voice. Or a website, rather.
Nibbles: Heirloom apples, Cowpeas, Lettuces, Livestock, Taste, Soil, Nutrition, Meat, Malaria tea, SIRGEALC, ABS
- Is “heritage” just “heirloom” for “birds and animals”? I for one don’t think so. These apples are heritage, for example.
- Saving the Sea Island Red Pea. Which is a heritage cowpea, I think.
- 43 different types of heritage lettuce illustrated.
- Eat those heirloom pigs or lose them.
- Taste and nutrition go hand in hand.
- Soils are part of traditional agricultural heirloom systems.
- Heirloom shmeirloom, those food systems need some work if they are to deliver nutrition.
- The case for meat, heirloom or otherwise. And a whole series of posts on how to best feed all those cows.
- A herbal tea against malaria.
- The 10th SIRGEALC is on the horizon.
- A lot of people going to that will probably need these resources on implementing both the International Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol at the same time.
Nibbles: Grazing, Saving foodways, Amaranth, Fortification, Avocado threats, Kew job, Coffee photos, PhyloLink, Nutrition & ag, Remote sensing
- Grazing is good for grassland.
- Saving British food. And that of Ghana too, why not?
- Amaranth the next superfood? Maybe, but I vote we ban that silly term.
- The case for fortification: diverse diets are just too hard.
- And the latest fruit that’s in trouble is…the avocado.
- Wanna “[s]pend your summer in lovely Kew Gardens interacting with the public and opening people’s eyes and noses to the delightful world of spices”?
- Photographing the soul of coffee.
- Atlas of Living Australia adds nifty phylogenetic thingie.
- World Bank says “agriculture has a unique and critical role in improving nutritional status” so it must be true.
- Protecting forests from the air.
Nibbles: SDGs, Seed book, Magic millets, Medieval diets, Obsessive botanist, Cocoa melting gene, Double sake, Simcock, CIMMYT double, Popular breeder, Georgian wine odyssey, Cinnamon vid, Yam bean factsheet, Jackfruit bandwagon, Prairie berries
- Agriculture and the SDGs in one nice infographic thingy.
- Seeds: The Book.
- Seeds like millets?
- Those medievals really knew how to eat.
- An obsessive botanist? Whatever next.
- Deconstructing chocolate, one gene at a time.
- Sake 101. And for a more in-depth look…
- Joseph Simcox, self-described “Internationally Renowned World Food Plant Resource Authority” takes you “on a World Adventure to learn about little known edible plants!” On Facebook.
- A journey into the heart of CIMMYT. They’ll even screen your maize for you.
- The people’s breeder.
- Tracing wine to its source: Georgia.
- Harvesting cinnamon. With video goodness.
- FAO unleashes its mighty comms machine on another poor neglected crop: yam bean. Not many people hurt.
- Watch out jackfruit, you’re probably next.
- Or maybe saskatoon berries (Amelanchier alnifolia).