Gebisa Ejeta on revitalizing agricultural research

2009 World Food Prize Laureate Gebisa Ejeta will speak on “Revitalizing Agricultural Research for Global Food Security” on Wednesday, 3 February 2010 at 7-8:30 pm at IDRC in Ottawa. The event will be webcast live and you can email your questions in. I’m sure the audience will be large and distinguished. I can but hope that the money people among them will take the message to heart and act on it.

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Thanks for the heads up, as I’d definitely like to catch this webcast. I’ve read transcripts of Dr. Ejeta’s testimony before and been very impressed with the case he makes, it’ll be good to see how he comes across live.

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Fresh Nibbles

A paean to diverse diets is just what we all need.
And another one, from the MIT Technology Review of all places.
Menawhile, there’s only one reference to dietary diversity in the World Bank’s investment framework for nutrition.
Maybe you have to quantify that diversity before you can save it? Now where have I heard that before?
Meanwhile, Europe reports on biodiversity-friendly farming practices. Does that include the biodiversity of the actual crops? Perhaps surprisingly, yes!
You want biodiversity-friendly farming practices? Talk to Indigenous people. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has launched an e-consultation on “Preserving, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems.”
There’s diversity in asparagus too.
Genebanks can help with those biodiversity-friendly practices, diverse diets and rops and Indigenous practices.
Even big international genebanks.
Even the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
But some are in trouble.
Though others are coming back.

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