June 24, 2010June 26, 2010 by Luigi Guarino

Nibbles: Madagascar’s environment, Zambian beer, Agroecology, Shade coffee, AnGR, Entomotherapy

BBC photos of natural resources management in Madagascar.
Zambian brewer uses local sorghum.
Olivier De Schutter says ecological agriculture can feed the world.
The future of coffee according to Conservation International.
BBC says African livestock an “untapped genetic resource.” So it must be true.
Take two cockroaches and call me in the morning.

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1. Big IUCN report says that biodiversity and agriculture are in conflict, they don’t really need to be, but it’s really complicated for them not to be. So that’s us all told.
2. If only annual crops were perennial, for example, eh?
3. If only we incorporated more sustainable agriculture in education, for example, eh? Apart from anything else we could still have beer. No word on the role of perennial barley though.
4. If only improved seeds were open source, for example, eh?
5. If only we could cryopreserve coral, for example, eh? Wait, what?
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