Vegetables

Nibbles: Canadian genebank, Indian women farmers, Coconut videos, Willow catalog, Crop models & CC, Next GR, Caviar of Cantaloupes, Wild Bactrian, Dog history, Top 100 development questions

Video of the Canadian genebank.
First video in series on Indian women farmers: Bowing to No One, by Sarah Khan.
Whole bunch of coconut videos. See what I did there?
Good news for cricketers: willow variety catalog out.
The skinny of what crop models say about the effects of climate change. Spoiler alert: it ain’t good.
The latest call for a new Green Revolution.
Safe to say cantaloupes won’t feature much in that, which is a pity.
Maybe some other weird plants will, though.
Wild camels are pretty tough. And since we’re on the subject, what’s a heritage animal breed?
Wait, they solved dog domestication?
Top 100 development research questions for our SDG world, including ten on food security and agriculture.

Cassava in the spotlight.
Yeah but don’t forget your veggies.
Plus a tasty baobab dessert.
And of course you’ll need a glass of wine to go with such a nicely balanced meal.
Let’s bring all that together, shall we?
Before it’s too late.

Faba beans came before cereals in Galilee.
Wine is not quite so old in Georgia, but still pretty old. But will they be able to genotype it?
South Africa is a cattle melting pot.
Getting improved wheat out there in Ethiopia.
These seeds are definitely ready for their close-ups.
Speaking of close-ups: Amy Goldman has a new book out.
First forage clover genome. More and more difficult to think of firsts.

FAO has guidelines for making sure climate adaptation plans include crop diversity.
A new agricultural biodiversity newsletter for your reading pleasure.
And a new blog of global sustainability issues from Jonathan Foley.
The Beaver Dam pepper back from the brink.
Nice set of slides summarizing the Plant Treaty.
The traditional Thanksgiving save-heirloom-turkeys story.
Farming changed people.
Crop elders?
Women speak out about traditional African veggies.

Domestication made the tomato run slower.
Domestication saved the pumpkin from climate change, which had messed up its cozy relationship with megafaunal poop.
Domestication may (or may not) have happened twice in the olive. No word on role of poop.
Papaya trashing the Amazon.
Orphan crops: their day is coming. But not yet?
You mean like kernza?
Grafting 101.
Tasmanian forage collection joins the club.
CIMMYT’s seed distribution operation in pix.
How the French cereals genebank maintains quality.
Medicinal plants in NYC.
Yes, donors, rice improvement makes a difference.
Biodiversity especially important when times are tough. Well, in microbial communities anyway.