Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, animals, wild relatives ...
And here’s the text of the Directive announced in an earlier post. As it starts being interpreted and implemented (or not) in different ways in different member countries, it will be interesting to monitor what actually happens to genetic diversity. I hope someone’s gathering the baseline data for this natural experiment, or “randomized evaluation” as I believe economists call them. The floor is open for discussion!
LATER: Perhaps the Farm Seed Opportunities project will set that baseline?
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Penny has an intriguing idea about black rice:
“Dr Xu says he’s like to see Louisiana farmers growing black rice”Or, we could just buy it from the countries where it is indigenous to. That way, the farmers who actually developed it would benefit from producing it.
She has reasons, too, good ones.
Who’s tweeting Medvedev
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