- Desert seeds go to Svalbard.
- “Two young engineers, Fuad Gasi and Idin Fazlic, are in charge of the bank, which is staffed by volunteers.”
- Seedbombs: recipes and legal niceties.
- Achieving food security sustainably. Report of a PAR/FAO workshop.
- On the other hand, here’s what Australia’s leaders heard about A Food Secure World.
- How much do you really need to know about mandrake?
- Do rich countries produce more per hectare? h/t GOOD
- Pocket guides to chili farming. Might have a wider audience than originally intended.
- Collecting cockles is women’s work, at least in Ecuador.
- Why would anyone want to eat it when they could use cassava for biofuel instead?
The VIR Department of Biotechnology, Pushkin
The VIR Department of Biotechnology, Pushkin, a set on Flickr.
You may remember a post a few months back at Vaviblog describing a paper on the Vavilov’s Institute’s potato collection. I recently had the pleasure of meeting one of the authors, Dr Tatjana Gavrilenko, for the first time, and in her natural habitat to boot. Here are the results.
Nibbles: Sake, Wine, Kew, Climate change, Canada, Banana processing
- To a hammer, everything is a nail; Decanter magazine bemoans loss of sake breweries in Japan.
- One door closes, another one opens; “price winning” Croatian wines.
- Why go to Kew when you can tour with Google streetview?
- Slideshow on genebanks and climate change adaptation in Ethiopia. Wish I could hear the words.
- Canadians! Your heritage crops and breeds need you.
- How best to dry banana slices in Ethiopia.
Celebrating Irish agrobiodiversity, and other things
Happy St Patrick’s Day! Now, do I link to Central Asian melons
Jeremy had one look at the map in the previous post and asked me whether it was possible that watermelon cultivation had collapsed in the Central Asia republics. Well, it has probably declined substantially, but clearly not entirely, as the photograph above suggests. You can read at length about the melons of Uzbekistan. And you can see below how things used to be, at least for other kinds of melons. Yes, old pictures of agrobiodiversity markets again.
