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What is biodiverse food?

Posted on June 13, 2014 by argylesock

Ann Tutwiler of Bioversity International tells us why in the 21st century, we need biodiverse food. And she tells us what that could mean. Ms Tutwiler doesn’t mince her words, saying that a need for dramatically increased food production is … Continue reading →

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Millet

Posted on December 6, 2013 by argylesock

Millets are grasses with smaller seeds than the grains that people like me, in the rich world, know as our staple foods. We should notice other grains too, including millets. Millions of people appreciate millets as staple food and as … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer, money and trade | Tagged barley, cash crop, climate, corn, crop, crop variety, development, dryland, farmer, feed, food, foxtail millet, grain, knowledge, livestock, maize, millet, neglected crop, nutrition, oats, pearl millet, plant_monocot, poverty, rice, rye, selective breeding, sorghum, staple food, trade, value-added, wheat, wild rice, woman | 4 Comments

History of Pearl millet

Posted on November 20, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on bbzfrankie:
Pearl millet is the most widely grown type of millet. It has been grown in Africa and the Indian subcontinent since prehistoric times. The center of diversity, and suggested area of domestication, for the crop is…

Posted in food, human health, knowledge transfer | Tagged biofortification, breeding, child, crop, crop variety, domestication, food, grain, history, human, iron, Iron Rich Pearl Millet, millet, nutrition, pearl millet, plant_monocot, selective breeding, staple food | Leave a comment

Seeking sustainable crops

Posted on October 22, 2013 by argylesock

Elisabeth Braw at the Guardian tells us about the search for sustainable crops. She says that we in the rich world focus too much on a tiny number of staple food species. But ‘at one time during the past 10,000 … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer | Tagged African Biofortified Sorghum, banana, biodiversity, biofortification, bioprospecting, biotechnology, breeding, crop, crop variety, domestication, enset, farmer, food, food security, foraging, genetic modification, Iron Rich Pearl Millet, millet, neglected crop, nutrition, pearl millet, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, selective breeding, smallholder, sorghum, staple food, sustainable, wild food | 5 Comments

Pest evolves better resistance to insecticidal GM crops

Posted on September 21, 2013 by argylesock

A few days ago I reblogged a post about genetically modified (GM, also called genetically engineered, GE) crops. I said that in my opinion, my fellow blogger Nasir Butt at Agriculture Information Bank sounds a little bit naïve in that … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer | Tagged arthropod, biotechnology, Bt crop, Bt toxin, corn, DNA, evolution, gene, genetic modification, grain, insect, insecticide, insecticide resistance, knowledge, lepidopteran, maize, millet, Monsanto, moth, pearl millet, pest, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_monocot, research, sorghum, stalk borer, staple food | 3 Comments

Iron-Rich Pearl Millet against malnutrition

Posted on September 9, 2013 by argylesock

Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is a staple food in resource-poor parts of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Many kids raised on pearl millet, or whose mothers ate mostly pearl millet, don’t get enough iron to grow up healthy. Now here’s pearl … Continue reading →

Posted in food, human health, knowledge transfer | Tagged biofortification, child, development, food, grain, iron, Iron Rich Pearl Millet, knowledge, millet, nutrition, pearl millet, plant_monocot, research, selective breeding, staple food, woman | 4 Comments

The importance of seed diversity

Posted on August 15, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Seeds might be small, inconspicuous things but they hold a great deal of power. For some, seeds mean survival, ritual, life. They are the basis of much of the…

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Another Victory for Seed Freedom

Posted on July 16, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on The Noah Project:
Dr. Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned advocate for seed freedom and opponent of GMO’s, explains why the Indian Court’s rejection of Monsanto’s climate resilient plant patent is so important to seed freedom: Monsanto tried to…

Posted in food, knowledge transfer | Tagged Asia, biotechnology, breeding, climate, crop, crop variety, flood, food, food safety, food sovereignty, genetic modification, grain, law, local variety, millet, patent, pearl millet, plant_monocot, rice, salt, seed, selective breeding | 2 Comments

Agricultural biotech against poverty and hunger

Posted on July 11, 2013 by argylesock

Too many people are hungry. Many of the hungry people are African. Biotechnology might help. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) tells us how biotech can help to feed people. ‘A successful strategy should have MULTIPLE … Continue reading →

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New Commitments to Combat Malnutrition

Posted on June 9, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on ECO-opia:
June 8, 2013 by News from the CGIAR Consortium Speaking today at the event “Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger through Business and Science,” Rachel Kyte, Chair of the CGIAR Fund Council and World Bank Vice…

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