It can be a bit frustrating banging on about the importance of agricultural biodiversity when almost everybody else seems to be focused on simplistic solutions to complex problems. Frustrating, and tiring. So I’ll just point you to two items you can read for yourself and decide whether we are truly nuts. First, Nature’s report from Yunnan in China about the drought there. Secondly, a paper by Professor Yy Zhu and his colleagues, Crop Diversity for Yield Increase. Anyone should be able to join the dots.
Like you said in your “Feet of Clay” post way back when, here’s a simple, elegant technique that delivers the goods in real time. I guess this is just too dull for the proponents of Splice a Gene, Save a Starving Kid. You ain’t nuts.
The PLoS ONE paper on “Crop Diversity for Yield Increase” will go directly into my teaching files on intercropping and the Land Equivalent Ratio. Thank you!
That’s good to hear, Eve. I wonder what else is in there …