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Posted on January 7, 2009January 7, 2009

Eating Fluffy

Check out this longish meditation on Peru’s main source of protein. Recipe included. Delicious!

And while we’re on the subject of protein on the hoof, as it were, the BBC has a great series of photos of the season of cattle crossings along the River Niger in Mali.

Fresh Nibbles

    1. FAO explains why diversity matters.
    2. Well, for one thing, food prices, that’s why.
    3. Ah, yes, diversity: “You gotta have it. You gotta use it. You gotta talk about it.”
    4. Odisha mainstreams landrace diversity in its seed system.
    5. Meanwhile, the Farmers Union of Cyprus is stashing seeds away in Community Bank of Cypriot Traditional Seeds.
    6. Looks a bit like the Groupements de Production Artisanale de Semences in Haiti. If you squint.
    7. If only there were some guidelines for managing such community seed banks.
    8. Iraqi Kurdistan gets in on the genebank act.
    9. Iraq used to have a genebank, but what happened to it has just happened in Sudan.
    10. Ah, to have a Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index so that such things could be predicted and steps taken.
    11. And a monitoring system and some targets would be good too.

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