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Crops, animals, wild relatives ...
This just in from the Theme Leader on the Global Challenge Program for Climate Change and Food Security, based in Cali, Colombia, aka Andy Jarvis:
The official launch for the Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will take place on May 4th in Nairobi, Kenya.
Be there (and report it for us?) or be square.
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Penny has an intriguing idea about black rice:
“Dr Xu says he’d 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
