Positively the last word on the Amman conference
It comes from our friends at CIAT, and points to the final version of the Amman Declaration on another CGIAR climate change blog. Yes, crop wild relatives are in there!
Tying up some Amman loose ends
You’ve been wondering about those as yet unanswered questions from the Amman conference, haven’t you? Ok, here goes. Jose Cubero asked why there are no commercial faba bean hybrids. He had no answer. The yield gain is considerable. BTW, did you know that protein content in faba bean is not negatively correlated with yield potential, …
Amman conference draws to a close with declaration
I don’t want to leave you with the impression that the Amman conference on food security in the drylands has been all about germplasm and breeding, as far as adaptation to climate change is concerned. Cultural practices did get a look-in. Conservation agriculture in general, and zero tillage in particular, came up repeatedly, in fact. …
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Nibbles: Amman, Banana disease, Survey, Qatar, Wetlands
MSM on Amman meeting; eat Luigi’s dust. Black sigatoka disease confirmed on St Lucia; eats banana plantations. “Eggs come from sheep” kids survey surprise shock; eat anything. Qatar builds a genebank. On World Wetlands Day, Lake Chad protected and British farmland flooded. Will some crop wild relatives benefit?
Some answers from Amman
Ok, here goes with those answers I promised last night, or some of them anyway. What’s so new about climate change? After all, breeders have been preparing for, and reacting to, environmental changes of various kinds since their beginning as a profession. Well, for one thing the speed of the changes, and the fact that …