Nibbles: Climate, Shitstorm, Fish, Food, Biotech, Talk, Drought, Bananas

by Jeremy Cherfas on March 3, 2010

Community-based adaptation to climate change. A book from IIED.
This really is outrageous. Manure is now a pollutant in the world’s most wasteful economy. h/t Ethicurean.
Where have all the fishes gone, gone to flowers every one.
Dept. of Uh-huh: Innovation in traditional foodstuffs could harm their image.
Dept. of Uh-huh Pt 2: An over-dependence on genetically modified organisms to boost agricultural production eclipses other biotechnologies and their potential to benefit poor farmers in developing countries.
Adam Forbes is giving a talk about his seed-searching travels, March 22, Princeton, NJ. Go! Report!
Malawi’s miracle laid low by drought?
IITA leads seven African nations against banana diseases.

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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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