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Fresh Nibbles: May 22, 2012
: <- click to comment- 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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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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Nice map comparison of Bamako.
The Geographical Institute in Bamako DOES have a reasonable map of Bamako (although not all of the urban sprawl is on it), but it is not available digitally is a far as I know.
Paul Collier in his highly readable The Bottom Billion has much to say about what African agriculture and economies need, including diversification out of a narrow range of primary commodities that have kept people locked into poverty.