I must say I was surprised to see this, here.
Pleasantly surprised.
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, animals, wild relatives ...
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Fresh Nibbles: May 17, 2013
<- click to comment- Nice piece from NPR on the coffee genebank in Costa Rica and the importance of breeding for resistance to coffee rust. Where’s the diversity for that going to come from, you ask?
- Weird piece from NPR on why humans took up farming. Hard to swallow.
- At least in India and Uganda, men and women use trees differently, and have different access. Good to know.
- “David Byrne receives national 2013 Carroll R. Miller Award for peach research.” Settle down! Not that David Byrne.
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
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Featured Comment May 13, 2013
Some very good news from Mohamed Amar, head of the Egyptian Deserts Gene Bank:
I can confirm that we have been rebuilding the Egyptian deserts gene bank in new form during the year and a half.
Here’s hoping we get more information soon.
Updates … delivered
- Srimathie Dissanayake: Thank you for all of your work!
- What's Nick Eating: Thanks for this very insightful breakdown. It's quite obvious that Bythman feeds off of misinformation about quinoa and the fact ...
- dianabuja: Looking forward to learn more about recent work in the Deserts Gene Bank.
- Mohamed Amar: Greetings to all, now I can confirm that we have been rebuilding the Egyptian deserts gene bank in new form ...
- Ford Denison: Tabarrok makes a good point, but his claim that "trade... is welfare enhancing" isn't entirely convincing. The decreasing local ...
- Dave Wood: Jeremy: The easiest way of `not getting into that' is to look at `nature' and ask ourselves under what conditions ...
- Anes: We are required to design a knowledge management portal (KMP) for any subject/theme/topic of interest from any field of natural ...
- Abram Bicksler: Very interested to try for our partners and development workers in the developing world.
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Luigi asked if anyone knew of people working specifically on surveys of PGR in the urban setting? Well although focused on wild plants rather than PGR, in 2008 BGCI published an issue of the BGjournal themed on urban biodiversity. A number of botanic gardens are involved in conserving the biodiversity of their local areas. You can take a look here: http://www.bgci.org/resources/bgjournal/
Scroll down to the July 2008 issue.