- The wages of Kenyan rose growers increase 22% — to $59 a month. Sinful.
- Wheat stripe rust uses sex to break down barriers.
- Q&A with Cuban whiz Humberto Ríos.
- Latest Carnival of Evolution is up; we’re the only ag, alas.
- Proposed agricultural biodiversity heritage sites in India. (Is this new?)
- Investing in Underutilised Crops to Achieve Food Security. A report from the CGARD conference in March.
- The Hanging Gardens of Kenya.
- Living in genetic mixtures helps plants against herbivores. No, really.
- “Restoring human cultures to the web of life.”
Nibbles: Home Gardens, Seed saving, Apomixis
- Home gardens in Oaxaca, Mexico, conserve diversity and improve resilience. Good to know.
- Seed saving symposium to take place in Hawaii, April 17-18. Good to know.
- Apomixis for plant breeding a step closer in experimental systems. Good to know?
Nibbles: Potato, Research, Tobacco, Bees squared, Seed diversity, Declaration
- “The Jersey Royal is the only potato that enjoys protected designation of origin…”
- Agricultural research not enough?
- Wild crop relative switches pollinator to escape nasty caterpillars.
- Bushmeat hunters become beekeepers.
- And here’s why beekeeping is such a good thing.
- Diversity deemed a good thing, even for crazed monoculturists.
- ‘Keep biodiversity or face hunger’. Yet another Chennai Declaration.
Nibbles: Svalbard, Consumers, Seed law, Fragrant rice, Five Farms on radio, Invasive plant used, Genetic diversity and latitude, Coffee and tea in history, Coconut disease
- “Sustainable food production may not begin in this cold Arctic environment, but it does begin by conserving crop diversity.” Words of wisdom from the frozen lips of Ban Ki Moon.
- Organic vs local. A survey.
- Civil Society opposes seed laws in Chile.
- Jeremy gets stuck into a bowl of basmati and Five Farms.
- “Pest to pesto.”
- Tropical fruit flies have less genetic diversity than temperate fruit flies, may have trouble adapting to climate change.
- “It is difficult to imagine what the first taste of sugar or coffee must have been like to those accustomed to weak beer and bread.”
- Lethal yellowing spreads in Ghana?
Nibbles: Fruits, Natives, Economics, Artichoke, Gardens
- Beautiful Images of Strange Fruits. Botanical not culinary, mostly
- Hawaiians paid to plant natives.
- Dismal science tells boffins which cattle breeds to save. Yeah, because we all so trust economists these days, right?
- “Cynara 2009, the 7th International Symposium on Artichoke, Cardoon And Their Wild Relatives, will be held in Saint Pol de Léon, Brittany, France, the ‘home town’ of the famous artichoke variety Camus de Bretagne.” Via.
- Pinoy allotment manual.