Restoring degraded land

by Jeremy on April 15, 2008

There’s a new issue of New Agriculturist online. The focus is on restoring degraded land, and there’s something there for everyone.

Fresh Nibbles: February 9, 2012 : <- click to comment

Yale University magazine drinks the fast-track breeding KoolAid panacea.
Grafting tomatoes is hot for lots of reasons; but how does it protect against leaf-borne diseases?
Getting the lowdown on that “food sovereignty” farrago.
And today’s DNA sequencing will solve world hunger and cure bunions story.
Genomics also good for “health, agriculture, livestock, fisheries and biodiversity” in Philippines. Have we forgotten anything?

Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.

And easy access to the Brainfood Archive.

Featured Comment: February 7, 2012

David Williams remembers Ed Percival:

Ed’s father was working for the United Fruit Company in Guatemala where he met and married Ed’s mother, a Guatemalan. Ed was born at the United Fruit Company hospital in Quiriguá, an archaeological site on the Rio Motagua, famous for its incomparable array of Mayan stelae, one of which is featured on the country’s 10 centavo coin.

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