Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
No member of the plant kingdom has ever been so willfully and stubbornly misunderstood. EU funds US$ 300 million to develop galip nut (Canarium indicum) in New Britain. Happy Birthday, Fort Collins. First, pocket pigs. Now, mini-cows. Watch our hits go through the roof. The story of the mother who went to Hell to protect …
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Forget those silly pocket pigs. Who needs their smooth, anodyne winsomeness. What you want is a hybrid hedgehog. And the Time Team has a great idea for what to do with the little beggars.
We have stumbled into a world of which I was barely aware. Sure, I knew a bit about falabella horses, and chihuahuas and other tiny dogs. But Luigi’s nine-word entry on mini-pigs has attracted more interest than anything else we have ever posted here before, at least in terms of the sheer number and persistence …
They don’t say whether it is the famous Lincolnshire Curly Coat, but it looks like it might be. ((Or maybe it’s a Mangalitsa, from Hungary.)) Now, if only they could make them pocket-sized… Thanks, Cary. UPDATE (17 Fe. 2016): Well, “they” were the LA Times, and both the story and video to which we linked …
I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop, ever since CIAT’s ace snapper Neil Palmer posted his great shots of guinea pigs in the Congo some months back. Finally, it has, with a long post about CIAT’s project More chicken and pork in the pot, and money in the pocket: improving forages for monogastric …