Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Mr Chetri’s genebank. Ruby chocolate. You heard me. The next Green Revolution won’t be like the first one. Phew. Ideas that will change the world include “super plants” like enset. Right. But not, surprisingly, quinoa. Or bush tucker.
Boffins sequence plant in field for real-time identification. Boffins decide machines do identification better. Boffins trace apple domestication to Silk Road. Famous Silk Road traveller on sago. Thinking up fun ways of cooking another pretty tasteless staple. Did someone mention super-foodszzzzzzz. Mongabay: Africa needs creative conservation funding approaches. Emily Garthwaite: Hold my latte.
Tibetan mastiff precursor got busy with wolves. Very few stallions are responsible for domestic horses. Workshop on getting the most out of cassava in central Africa. But are they talking about collections? Jackfruit is allright. Fairtrade keeps youngsters on the (quinoa) farm. But for how long? Tweaking tomatoes through gene editing.
Diversifying crop production for the SDGs: the view from AVRDC. Local bread, in India and Istanbul. Foresters get all genetic. Winning the battle against citrus greening in Florida. Yeah, so what happened in Marrakech? Do chickpeas really have the nutritional value of cardboard? An apple genebank a day… Drawing the International Year of Quinoa to …
Bluebirds: friend or foe? Shit knows. Where would you hold a conference on Quinoa for Future Food and Nutrition Security in Marginal Environments? Dubai, natch.