Kofi Annan sees for himself. Jeremy unavailable for comment.
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, animals, wild relatives ...
Fresh Nibbles: February 10, 2012
: <- click to comment- Higher maize yields? Plant cover crops between the rows.
- Barley tempeh! My kind of food exploration.
- Danny Hunter impresses Irish Times with need to conserve biodiversity.
- UK devotes millions to research for “bigger yields of better quality fruits and vegetables”.
- Germans embrace high-tech urban agriculture — cautiously.
- Put farmers’ markets near medical centres for added benefits. What happens when everyone’s so healthy they don’t need the doctor?
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Featured Comment: February 9, 2012
Clare Trivedi reassures Dave Wood on Kew’s ABS policy:
I know it may be a little buried in the Kew website but we have a very well-established Policy on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing which covers all aspects of acquisition, use and supply of plant material.
And to avoid you digging around for it, Dave, here it is.
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- February 6, 2012: Dave Wood commented on Consolidation in the seed industry
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- New Plant Hardiness Zone Map ready for prime time
- How to solve global hunger and malnutrition
- Online Biodiversity Heritage Library has agrobiodiversity too
- Next-generation sequencing and genebanks: a teaser
- Cotton doyen passes away
- Kermit sings the malnutrition blues
- Consolidation in the seed industry
- Brainfood: Falcons, Wild soybean squared, Horse domestication
- How they make cheese
- Mapping America
- Germplasm documentation is a two way street
- How grafting a plum tree led to an obsession
- Using data to inform nutrition security policy
- The quinoa story: it’s complicated
- Forests at your service: lessons from Kibale
- Breadfruit roundup
- Not all Andean tubers are potatoes
- Yemen spatial data online, sort of
- CGIAR research on Cassava Brown Streak Disease
- Food on a pedestal
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Certainly the farmer Kofi visited, 74-year-old Pharis Wekesa Masibo, sounds like a paragon of agricultural virtue. If all farmers were as enterprising as he is, there might be fewer problems. But then, I suspect he is a lot better educated than average; he was a head teacher for 44 years. And he has a lot of land; 20 acres. He also has 16 children. Nobody these days seems to be talking about the demographic transition any more, but for many in Africa it is going to be a long time coming.