Couldn’t resist this shot the other evening. Those are capers clinging to the remains of the Ponte Rotto in Rome. Wonder if anyone ever collects them. Not so much hidden harvest as hard-to-reach harvest.
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: <- 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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Mmmm, capers. Mysteriously fabulous on white pizza.
As for hidden/hard-to-reach harvest – I’ve got what I think are wild blackberry “trees” alongside a steam by my house – but no way to get them! Sigh. There are so many berries, even the birds can’t eat them all. I think there are gooseberries as well. Any thoughts?
PS: I’m in Ames, IA
A canoe?