- Libya asks ICARDA for seeds. We ask “Libyan seeds?”
- Indian small farmers should link to retail chains.
- New Agriculturalist reviews a book on upscaling small-scale farmers.
Nibbles: Oca, Blog, Phones, UPOV, Finding seeds
- Someone else is interested in breeding oca for outside the Andes.
- Not to be outdone, the World Agroforestry Centre has a blog.
- Which somehow missed this story — Study finds mobile phones empower rural farmers — from World Agroforestry Centre.
- The Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) has a new portal with added database goodness. Luigi dons his spelunking gear.
- No thanks, no need. From now on, like this guy in Hawaii, I’m googling.
Nibbles: R&D for Botswana, Grasses, Phytoliths
- Botswana wants more home-grown R&D for horticulture.
- The wonder of Aberyswyth’s high-sugar grasses. (Linking to the link farm because Aber has only a PDF.)
- The Archaeobotanist points to an online database of phytoliths … because you never know when you’ll need one.
John Innes’ peas on the BBC
The John Innes Centre announces on Facebook that, on the latest episode of the BBC2 programme Great British Food Revival, the Centre’s genebank curator, Mike Ambrose…
…talks to celebrity chef Ainsley Harriot about peas, and introduces him to the JIC collection of 3,500 types of pea. Available in the UK until 6:59PM Tue, 22 Nov 2011 (pea segment starts after 29 mins).
Alas, not available here in Italy. Can someone in the UK watch the pea segment and tell us about it, please? The JIC pea collection is one of the largest in the world.
LATER: Or, you can watch this: ((Thanks to whoever tweets for John Innes!))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PSNMFV20kNibbles: Bangladeshi horticulture, USDA-ARS impact, NY native seeds, Spate irrigation, FIGS, Livestock trifecta
- The floating gardens of Bangladesh.
- So, USDA-ARS, what have you done for me lately?
- The story of Ed Toth, the director of New York City’s native plant center on Staten Island. In other news, New York City has a native plant center.
- Not all floods are bad.
- The Consortium discovers FIGS.
- Livestock genetic resources for the poor: The interview. And the PowerPoint. And the Fancy Science.