Nibbles: Climate change, Papaya sex, Inheritance, AGCommons

by Jeremy Cherfas on November 3, 2009

“New study warns that climate change could create agricultural winners and losers in east Africa.” Any other possibilities?
“Researchers to perform sex change operation on papaya.” Bang goes a bunch of sexual diversity.
Inherited wealth is good for farmers, better for herders, lousy for hunters.
AGCommons is a CGIAR project to deliver information to farmers in Africa. Watch their new video, with added Andy Jarvis goodness.

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It’s so exciting: Rio+20 is almost upon us. Here’s the CGIAR’s Call to Action. Maybe they could fix the splits too?
CIAT hopes to have some useful answers on food security and ecosystem services, in four years.
At Chelsea, maybe the sun will shine on seedsmen of old?
How they make flour from diverse agricultural products in Ethiopia video.
They’re commercializing camels there too.
Obituaries for bioinformatics tools. Stop sniggering in the back.
Third annual Malthus lecture starts in just a few hours. In Washington DC.

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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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