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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

Crops, animals, wild relatives ...

Genetic diversity

Mapping the 1970 corn blight

by Robert Hijmans on April 20, 2012

US government blames maize yield losses on Southern Corn Leaf Blight

by Jeremy Cherfas on April 20, 2012

Blight is right: genetic uniformity was to blame

by Jeremy Cherfas on April 19, 2012

Brainfood: Pollinator threats, Predicting drought tolerance, Markets and conservation, Groundnut oil composition diversity, European wheat landraces, Dung beetles, Livelihoods, Phenology

by Luigi Guarino on April 16, 2012

Biodiversity is more than a matter of breeding

by Jeremy Cherfas on April 13, 2012

Nibbles: Anna Laurent, Sequencing, Gossypium, Capsicum, Native Americans, Journal, Genebank, Hairy fruit, JIC, Tasty tulips

by Luigi Guarino on April 10, 2012

Nibbles: Baby ginger, Livestock, Teaching, Organic seeds, Pawpaw, Citrus, Ethiopia

by Jeremy Cherfas on April 9, 2012

Nibbles: Domesticating fruit trees, Plains Indians, Weedy rice, Prize, Maize festivals, Ifugao, Bangladeshi diets, Pacific hopes, Plant patents

by Jeremy Cherfas on April 5, 2012

Brainfood: Medicinal plants, Einkorn diversity, Chestnut diversity, Leeks etc, Phylogenetic diversity

by Jeremy Cherfas on April 2, 2012

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Fresh Nibbles: May 23, 2012 : <- click to comment

  • “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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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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