- “Sustainable food production may not begin in this cold Arctic environment, but it does begin by conserving crop diversity.” Words of wisdom from the frozen lips of Ban Ki Moon.
- Organic vs local. A survey.
- Civil Society opposes seed laws in Chile.
- Jeremy gets stuck into a bowl of basmati and Five Farms.
- “Pest to pesto.”
- Tropical fruit flies have less genetic diversity than temperate fruit flies, may have trouble adapting to climate change.
- “It is difficult to imagine what the first taste of sugar or coffee must have been like to those accustomed to weak beer and bread.”
- Lethal yellowing spreads in Ghana?
The seed laws article is very interesting, and very frustrating. The opponents of the proposed law really like slippery slopes and hyperbole!
I’d like to learn more about what you guys think about plant intellectual property.
Without going too far into it, I think laws need to walk a fine line between encouraging innovation and stifling innovation.
Indeed. And that’s a tough row to hoe. Jeremy has blogged several times about what European Union seed rules are doing to “informal” seed saving and breeding.