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The further deconstruction of Indian onion prices 27 Aug 2013 | 04:50 pm
A quick follow-up to our post a couple of days back on the price of onions in India. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal, no less, weighed in on the subject, with a reference to a report commissioned by...
Nibbles: Citrus cryo, Vegetables everywhere, Threatened ecosystems, Brazilian ag, Native restoration, Regeneration video, Nomenclature, Grass pea, Tef... 27 Aug 2013 | 01:31 pm
Saving citrus by freezing it. WorldVeg pushing tomatoes in the Solomons. New York next? Ah, but what they really need is Mind Gardens. Oh, and a how-to-save-seeds book. Or maybe just Jeremy’s latest ...
Brainfood: Touristic islands, Pearl millet diversity, Barley diversity, Maize diversity, Weird chickpea, Sweet potato diversity, Pawpaw diversity, Gre... 26 Aug 2013 | 11:11 am
Sorry about the Brainfood hiatus lately. Back now, and with a vengeance. Plant genetic resources in a touristic island: the case of Lefkada (Ionian Islands, Greece). Landraces and tourism can coexist...
Knowing your (Indian) onions 23 Aug 2013 | 04:19 pm
I’m not sure if it has anything to do with the current precarious state of the Indian economy, but there are quite a few stories doing the rounds on the high prices of agricultural commodities in that...
Nibbles: Atlantic potatoes, Andean feasting, Lupin biodiversity, Vegetable grafting, Agrobiodiversity survey, Seed lending library, Lathyrus factsheet... 23 Aug 2013 | 02:15 pm
Tracing Canary Island potatoes back to the Andes. Lupin diversity, all in one handy place. Bangladeshi women are grafting away. Wanna take a survey of “lessons learned about ways and means to conse...
Nibbles: Superweeds, Old spices, Companies and nutrition, Bananas and cacao, Coffee pix, Potato restaurant, Millet processing, Aussie social herbarium... 22 Aug 2013 | 03:14 pm
Those who like that sort of thing will no doubt enjoy this discussion at Biofortified of that recent paper about a herbicide resistance transgene possibly giving a fitness advantage to weeds. And more...
Coffee fraud attacked 22 Aug 2013 | 02:33 pm
So you dropped $80 on a cup coffee. Now you’re wondering: “Is this really Kopi Luwak, the Joe that features palm civets as an essential worker in the production process?”. Because frankly, you can’t t...
Nibbles: Nigerian NUS, Disappearing diverse farms, Malnutrition 21 Aug 2013 | 05:42 pm
Canada invests $2.9m in “under-utilised Nigerian Vegetables,” report fails to say which ones. Where did all the diverse farms go? Katherine McDonald reveals all. Excellent argie-bargie over child nu...
New documentary about old wheats, etc 21 Aug 2013 | 01:17 pm
Sure, I know this might strike some people as hyper-romanticised food fetishism … But I still want to see the finished film. And taste the bread. And what’s wrong with hyper-romanticised food fetishis...
Nibbles: Afghanistan, Cereal domestication, Apple degradation, Map app, 16 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
Another soldier, this time a Brit, “Rebuilding Afghanistan through agriculture … as part of a counter-narcotics cell that encouraged farmers to grow legal agricultural crops, such as wheat, instead of...
