Kofi Annan sees for himself. Jeremy unavailable for comment.
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Fresh Nibbles: May 25, 2012
: <- click to comment- The UK is fully on board for Rio+20 to “prioritize sustainable agriculture”.
- Maybe they saw ILRI’s number on mixed crops and livestock?
- The Japanese say that restoring the surrounding ecosystem is what restored rice production after last year’s tsunami. So they will support the UK?
- Amateur trials genebank’s asparagus varieties. I got a great bean that way.
- AoBblog catches up with the pigeonpea priority problem.
- “‘We now know exactly what we need to do to fix the broken tomato,’ said Harry Klee of the University of Florida.” You couldn’t make this science knows how stuff up.
- A new use for liquorice: treating type 2 diabetes.
- Something is eating the palms of Antigua, including the coconut palms. I’m no expert, but the symptoms look a lot like the work of the red palm weevil, our Roman palm disaster.
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Featured Comment: May 21, 2012
Tim Robinson updates us on livestock data at FAO:
…We had, of course, been working on the collection of the underlying livestock statistics, and the spatial modelling to produce the maps, for many years prior to them being published on the FAO website … but that is all quickly forgotten when they are re-distributed by a third party.
For your information, we have been beavering away since then, collecting more recent and detailed sub-national livestock statistics and disaggregating these using a slightly modified modelling approach, and 1 km multi-temporal, Fourier-processed MODIS imagery from the University of Oxford…
Global datasets coming soon, apparently. We’ll keep you posted.
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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.