Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Remembering Robert Rhoades. Fenugreek 101. Plant nutrition experts on why plant nutrition is important for development. Nigel Chaffey rounds up botanical news. Best of its kind. Lois Englberger and others comment on that provocative vitamin A paper. Hey, did you know it was Insect Week? Olivia Judson on yeast. Welcome to Terralingua’s Portal on Biocultural …
Via Lois Englberger comes news of Bob Festival Day in the Marshall Islands last Saturday, 24 April. Bob is not some guy, but rather the Pandanus tree. Lois shared Lydia Tibon’s description of the event, which we reproduce below. Pandanus is very important throughout the Pacific, where it has multiple uses. Lois is particularly interested …
Via our friend Lois Englberger comes news of the nth project involving orange crops, where n is a large positive integer. This one is on orange-fleshed sweet potatoes — and indeed other high beta-carotene crops — in the Solomon Islands. The International Potato Centre (CIP) has a catalogue of orange varieties for Africa. I just …
Our friend at the Island Food Community of Pohnpei, Dr Lois Englberger, sends us news that her wonderfully agrobiodiversity-friendly NGO is now on Facebook. Go on and become a fan. Lois also points us to a great series of photographs on local foods by Anna Herforth, a PhD student at Cornell University: “Her thesis work …
Lois Englberger of the Island Food Community of Pohnpei has kindly agreed for us to publish her thoughts on the 19th International Congress of Nutrition. I would like to share about our participation in the 19th International Congress of Nutrition (ICN), October 4-9, 2009, in Bangkok, Thailand, as part of the global health project, led …
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