Nibbles: Asparagus, Eels, ICT, Dingoes, Phoenix dactylifera, Apples, Bear-pit

by Luigi Guarino on May 4, 2009

Liguria’s asparago violetto gets Slow Food treatment.
“The bottom line is we just don’t know why they are struggling so badly.”
Using mobile phones to treat plant pests and diseases in Uganda.
Dingoes have positive effect on biodiversity.
Date palm genome mapped.
Boffins see the light, explain negative effect of fertilizers on biodiversity.
Brogdale situation “better,” but for how long?
Wait, Bern has a bear-pit?

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“It seems that bananas, like Jews, are extremely perishable.” This I have to read.
How the chicken conquered the world. This too.

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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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Nibbles: Asparagus, Eels, ICT, Dingoes, Phoenix dactylifera, Apples, Bear-pit

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