Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
100 years of agricultural research in Idaho. Includes genebank since 1988. A Great Green Wall to go with Africa’s Green Revolution. Selling seed from the back of a car. Jacob unavailable for comment. Latest on that Haitian seed story. Seaweed farming in Zanzibar. Nice gig if you can get it. Taste is a complicated thing. …
Papas got a brand new bag — starring alongside Paul McCartney. Here’s the English. Duff commercial seeds a disaster for Nepalese farmers. As our friend Bhuwon said, “please do not give up your local varieties and traditional knowledge yet”. How to come up smelling of roses — eat a new kind of confectionary. Combining high …
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Our friend Diane Ragone of the Breadfruit Institute has kindly reminded us that there’s been quite a lot published on her favourite fruit lately. Almost worth a Brainfood all on its own, in fact. Beyond the Bounty: Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) for food security and novel foods in the 21st Century. Great potential, but “a deeper …
Just a quick follow-up to the rhyming couplet on water-related stresses in the just-published Brainfood. The Center for Hazards and Risks Research (CHRR) at Columbia University, which we have mentioned here before in connection with tsunami risk, also has data on Global Drought Hazard Distribution. With a little R-related effort by Robert ((Ok, ok, I’m …